The salary is terrible for a company of this size and for the amount of work you end up doing. There is no overtime, which is a shame because you WILL end up working overtime.
Part of the reason you will be very involved in the editorial process is because they have downsized the editorial teams so much that you end up doing tasks that were at some point an editor's or project manager's.
This year they outsourced the majority of their editorial and project management teams so there is now more work than ever on a smaller group of people. Those that are left are apparently managing the the teams Pearson hired to manage the contractors. Another reason this is a Con, is this move will most certainly affect business at least in the short run, as many professors when I left had serious concerns about the quality of the materials degrading. All the people who knew the products are gone so that will also affect the sales team, which may mean more lay offs in the future as John Fallon is under immense pressure to make bigger profits.
There is so much red tape that what should be a simple task becomes a nightmare. The Account Payable team is so awful there were times I wanted to pay people from my own bank account to end the horror and embarrassment.
Bonuses are mostly dependent on every part of the company doing well and meeting their sales goals. Last year our team exceeded our goal yet we did not receive a bonus, instead we got pink slips.
The biggest Con is that John Fallon and his team don't seem to know what they are doing. In the two years and a half I was there they changed their "vision" 3 times. It's almost like they their business strategy is based on the game Whack-a-Mole. "Let's try this, nope didn't work." "What about this, nope not that either." The CEO talks a good game when it comes to the future of Pearson, but he has a serious problem executing that vision because he wants to do it on a budget.
