Pearson reviews

-upper management is men. Folks, if you believe the glass ceiling doesn't exist in corporate America, come to Pearson.. where 80% of the employees are women but upper management is 90% men! -upper management is clueless and arrogant -hire managers from outside instead of promoting the ones in the company -frat boy culture in upper management -strategy keeps changing (read--no strategy)

*Really bad upper management. I mean really bad. An SVP was recently asked about our group's mobile strategy and had no answer. *In my group, no one in upper management, expect maybe the Managing Director, seems to have any quantitative aptitude. Also, no one knows what they actually do. * We're told to outsource, but no one has given us a good reason why. The quality of the outsourced work is usually poorer, especially with the larger vendors, and outsourcing often costs MORE money than doing the work in-house. *Dinosaurs galore. To be clear, there are plenty of talented employees of all ages, but simply too many whose skills sets have become obsolete and who refuse to adapt. The dinos are often promoted for political reasons, though, and then...can't do the job well... * Not many people understand what goes into making quality products. * Too many initiatives that go nowhere. You can literally sign up to be "Champion" for just about anything. * Despite our size, we somehow don't have enough data. * Salaries are not great, and raises this year were 1%, although a few people did get larger, merit-based bumps. *Constant reorgs have made projects hard to finish, job responsibilities unclear, and have lowered staff productivity and morale. * Also thanks to the re-orgs, some people have washed up in positions for which they're not qualified. This puts additional strain on those of us can actually do the work well. * The skills you'll gain/use working on projects may not be desirable, or even relevant, on the open market. In some ways, this is the worst point of all, as your skills will not be transferable and you may have a hard time getting another job.