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      Pearson

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      3.5

      59% would recommend to a friend

      (7,747 total reviews)
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      Omar Abbosh

      56% approve of CEO

      48% positive business outlook

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      Pearson has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 7,747 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
      Dec 17, 2015

      Not What You Might Expect

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      The office is clean, well-lit, and relatively quiet as a result of the fact that most of the cubes in the labyrinthine maze sit empty. The pay and benefits are adequate.

      Cons

      Heavy reliance on Indian vendors. Confusion of roles and lack of processes to keep the wheels from coming off during the busier times. Hard to work in an atmosphere of general frustration, confusion, and chaos. Sometimes the human element is ignored in favor of the bottom line. Constant fear of layoffs/restructuring.

      1.0
      Dec 2, 2015

      It's almost criminal...

      Senior editor
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      The people at the company truly care about education.

      Cons

      Executive management at Pearson is atrocious, with little attention payed to the ideas, expertise, and solutions put forth by employees. The company routinely puts out products with defective pedagogy in an effort to make a quick profit. Pearson continually seeks to "repurpose" old material in a "new" way in order to cut costs and make a quick buck. This renders their output obsolete, inferior, and carelessly designed in every conceivable way.

      2.0
      Mar 13, 2014

      Upper management is killing this company! Never the same since Marjorie S left

      Consultant
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      CEO approval
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      Pros

      This company has some of the best sales reps and mid-level managers in the business.

      Cons

      It's as if upper management has never been in sales! First they outlawed taking customers to dinner while our competitors continue to tell everyone this fact and take advantage of it. Second, they purged all of the experienced (25 years or more) curriculum managment and are now paying the price all over the USA with tanking revenue in curriculum adoptions. The most arrogant group of upper-management ever who will not listen to sales reps and mid-level managers about product development nor marketing strategies. Imploding results in major curriculum adoptions around the US.

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