Decentralized Mess - Data Scientist Pearson Employee Review

3.0
Jun 1, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

- Focus on Always Learning, great professional development opportunities - Competitive pay for the Denver area - Opportunity to work on some interesting projects

Cons

- Layoffs have lead to the only managers left to be survivors (meaning not the strongest managers but those who can play off failures to other teams). - In the better parts of the company, a focus on providing toys (laptops, high end monitors, noise-cancelling headphones) rather than improving pay and therefore retention. - Mid-level management does not know what it is doing. - Lack of responsibility or awareness that there are glaring reasons why employees are leaving in droves.

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Pros

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Cons

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