Product Director - Director, Product Management Pearson Employee Review

So many.... So many meetings, so many status reviews, so many check-ins with so many people who all seemed to just work for the weekly reviews. So much paperwork during the review process. So much process with little to show for it. Very political. Easy to wind up in the wrong place when the next round of layoffs came around. Lots of uncertainty. Would this group survive, would the latest strategy survive the next round of new execs...? Hard to get excited about strategies that seemed to change every quarter. Abysmal raises. Hard to motive staff when no one received more than 4-5% raise each year, no matter how hard they worked. Too many just got the standard 2.x% COL increase... cheap thrill. Going into the office to work became an incredibly depressing event. A sea of desks, never the same people in one area. Find a seat, plug in your headphones for the onslaught of check in meetings. Hopefully see a familiar face to talk to at some point in the day. But probably not. No travel, at least hasn’t been for years. So you work with people you will probably never meet, never really connect with. Especially if they are in Sri Lanka or India. Hard to create real teams that way.