Middle management needs improvement; HR is a joke - Media Project Manager Pearson Employee Review

2.0
Jan 8, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

- Good benefits - Good location, occasional events, etc. - Professional development if you choose to exercise it

Cons

- The worst HR department I have ever dealt with (local dept that is; national ESC is pretty good) - Ineffective managers retained and promoted - Inability to retain quality employees -- some were let go (???), some left because they weren't challenged - Micro-management. Goal posts constantly shifting. Upper level politics filtering down to new employees, tainting our performance and creating additional burdens during peak busy season - A hundred different data systems, most of which are antiquated but have a respectable face-lift. Different teams clinging to their technologies to stave off irrelevance

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