Pearson Associate Data Management Engineer reviews

Management is typical, by which I mean power hungry, sexist, and racist. Those promoted are those who play the "game" and give lip service to management, even at the expense of a project or team member. Women, and especially women of color, are gaslit, condescended to, and not protected by management. Employees are told to give their opinion on projects, but if their opinion doesn't align with management and serve management's power trip, they are gaslit and forced to quit, thereby excusing the company of legally paying the wronged employee any severance. Ultimately, marketing will attempt to sell the company as trying to help students with new products, and ultimately this is a lie. The students the company claims to serve are the very people who are most harmed by companies like this who uphold white supremacist and sexist norms while grabbing for more and more power and money. Not worth your time; you cannot make change from within.

- The leadership is completely absent. There is no clear vision for this team, no direction from the highest levels. - The middle management has no idea what it is doing. They have promoted people to senior roles who can barely code. There's some serious nepotism going on. - There is no set criteria for promotions. It's essentially who your manager thinks they can trust. People on this team lack the basic skills to hold an advanced title and are constantly asking others for help. - Middle management does not listen to the expertise of their data scientists. They embark on projects where 80% of them say it won't work and then they will force them to work on it anyways. - Project management is inexperienced and ineffective, creating more work than necessary and treating data scientists as children. - Women and minorities are treated like tech support. - Leadership protects each other instead of their reports and will scapegoat and force people out to cover for their inability to deliver. - Harassment is not reprimanded unless it is escalated to HR (which even then it might not be). - Some take credit for the work of others and then blame others when something goes wrong. - There is a culture of gaslighting and making anyone who raises concerns feel like the problem instead of addressing the real issues. - The turn over rate in the past year is ~60-70%.