Pearson reviews

3.5

60% would recommend to a friend

(7,749 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 7,749 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
Mar 7, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The people are great to work with. They bring innovation, commitment and creativity to everything they do.

Cons

The company is changing and there is no direction for the future. Layers of management are added and people that do the heavy lifting are let go. Those making the decisions for the greater company are so far removed from the products and the customers they are completely misinformed about what matters.

1.0
Feb 11, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

It is a large corporation that had considerable assets before they sold a number of them off. They have nice offices in a number of different locations. They offer a bonus plan.

Cons

It is a large corporation, no idea what talents and skills you have, no appreciation for hard work, leadership, and development efforts, headed in the wrong direction shifting to education services from publishing. They are outsourcing all the traditional publishing roles.

1.0
Feb 3, 2016

Stay clear of this place. Darker days lay ahead.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Not many if any. You may get a VP title if you hang around long enough.

Cons

This Company is top heavy with upper and middle management. It's a company with very little career development, zero retention of intellectual property, has developed a manipulative culture in which people are not valued and their sole function is to sit and shut up. Management, if you can call it that, is none existent. Their mantra of 'Pearson - Always Learning' is consistently the subject of humor among current employees who often substitute it with 'Pearson - There has got to be a better way'. Upper management has exceeded it's welcome at this company but ten years plus and it is not present based on merit or ability to lead or director. Management here is solely in place based on attrition and the passage of time and sometimes employees can feel like they are part of a book club or a bingo hall gathering.

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