Pearson reviews

3.5

59% would recommend to a friend

(7,746 total reviews)
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57% approve of CEO

49% positive business outlook

Pearson has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 7,746 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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3.0
Mar 3, 2016

Leadership Challenges

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Pros

The talented people working for Pearson is amazing. I had the opportunity to work with a great group and learned a great deal from them. Salary and benefits are good as well.

Cons

In the last restructure, it was all about favoritism, if you were in with a certain manager, you were kept. If not, you were let go. The talent they let walk out the door was shocking. No one looked at successes, talent, etc. The management team needs a complete overall in the Higher-Ed division.

1.0
Feb 13, 2016

Don't Bother/Move Along

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Pros

None. Current employee but likely soon to be ex-employee.

Cons

The company has gutted itself. Currently almost ALL roles are being outsourced to non-Pearson employees with minimal to no supervision. This can only result in shoddy content. The company is in the midst of rebranding itself, branding that harkens back to the days of British Colonialism in many respects w/ Pearson positioning itself as the means of poor down-trodden dark-skinned people clawing their way our of poverty with technology they can't afford. Upper management is delusional and is a clear oligarchy attuned to their own interests, the stock market, and not the product.

2.0
Nov 24, 2015

Look elsewhere

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Pros

Good benefits, flex scheduling (sometimes)

Cons

Look at the stock prices. Enough said. The management are not leaders and the company invests nothing in growing talent from within. They simply need warm bodies and they will work those warm bodies to death when given the chance. Everyone says the words "work life balance" but it's pretty much rhetoric when they are piling more and more on folks and basically writing checks the folks doing the work can't cash. And don't go to this company expecting to think about kids, in terms of education, as no one ever even utters the words.

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