Pearson reviews

3.5

60% would recommend to a friend

(7,728 total reviews)
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Omar Abbosh

57% approve of CEO

49% positive business outlook

Pearson has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 7,728 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 Audiovisual y medios de comunicación industry (3.7 stars).

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8K reviews
2.0
May 15, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

If you can deal with all the negative and bad morale, in the end the products we make are very good. It's just a lot of stress to get to that point.

Cons

Very bad morale. CEO has poor leadership skills, no people skills and has just been changing and then changing again without giving anything a chance to work. 10% of company (4000 people) being laid off this year. Employees left after layoffs are way overworked. Plans are to send most work to vendors but that will greatly detract from quality but no one seems to care, except the employees closest to developing the product which adds to the bad morale. No one seems to care about much and I think that's what makes people so discontented. Wants company to be digital but everything is done on a shoestring budget. Lots of people are leaving.

3.0
Feb 24, 2016

Pearson used to be a great place to work... not anymore.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great coworkers, benefits are top notch.

Cons

Professional growth used to be encouraged, but not within the past 3-5 years. John Fallon implemented multiple rounds of "global reorganization" of the entire company, which basically meant that a large majority of dedicated, long-time employees were let go. Not the same Pearson from a few years ago.

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