Pearson reviews

3.5

60% would recommend to a friend

(7,750 total reviews)
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Omar Abbosh

60% approve of CEO

49% positive business outlook

Pearson has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 7,750 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
1.0
Apr 8, 2016

Ugh

Anonymous employee
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Pros

By the time I was laid off, none.

Cons

Overworked. Unpaid overtime. Constantly underestimated. Undermined.

2.0
Mar 16, 2016

Uncertain future

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

generous with work from home schedule, you work with great people.

Cons

Corporate restructuring/downsizing has increased pressure on everyone else to pick up all work left behind. Low salary, no clear direction, dark clouds hovering over the future of this once proud company

2.0
Mar 13, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Good, open, honest people. - Ability to define your own role, to an extent - Company brass tries to communicate company direction openly, honestly and in an easily accessible environment - Ability to define your own hours - Pretty decent work/life balance

Cons

- While company brass tries to provide company employees with company direction in an open and honest venue, it comes across as brass trying to hide facts behind smoke screens - Due to internal layoffs, both a few years ago and currently on going, most people working within Pearson operate under a doom and gloom world view - Due to the INTL structure of the company, the ability for in person, team-member to team-member collaboration is highly lacking - Upward mobility is lackluster, at best - Pay scale, as per market standards, is lackluster - The publishing industry is not in a good place

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