Pearson reviews

3.5

60% would recommend to a friend

(7,751 total reviews)
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59% approve of CEO

49% positive business outlook

Pearson has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 7,751 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Pearson employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Media & Communication industry (3.7 stars).

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8K reviews
2.0
Jan 25, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

Flexible with schedule, good benefits package, and reasonably good compensation for the area. very nice people. The factor that makes the company most bearable is that 90% of your coworkers share the feeling that they're merely going through the motions in order keep collecting a cheque.

Cons

Soooo much deadweight. Very unprofessional environment. Incompetence—rather than being weeded out—is rewarded with new titles or promotions in order to shelter shortcomings. Information is slow to be shared, and is tightly guarded to the point that work suffers. It is common that personal lives are put to the wayside in order to catch up with work that could have been done—on time and on budget—had SOMEONE been manager enough to make a decision rather than try to guess the desires of senior management. Frightening that it's an education company.

5.0
Jan 24, 2012

A great place to work

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

In my experience, management is totally behind the "family first" concept and respects employees' ability to balance work and life without requiring time-clock punching. The company also provides lots of personal education opportunities to employees.

Cons

It's a very, very large company. Sometimes it's hard to know what's going on in related areas because of the number of people and locations invovled.

2.0
Jan 10, 2012

Just OK

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

It's a steady job so I can't complain.

Cons

Very low pay. Competitors seem to have the edge on Pearson.

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