Pearson reviews

3.5

59% would recommend to a friend

(7,734 total reviews)
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57% approve of CEO

49% positive business outlook

Pearson has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 7,734 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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1.0
Jan 12, 2016

Lost direction

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Pros

The people (and by that I mean the people who do the work, not the senior management) The benefits - good contributory pension scheme and maternity benefits particularly

Cons

Inexplicably the company has been bleeding talent and seems intent on hanging on to senior managers who have delivered nothing (Sales Directors who have missed targets year on year, VPs who cannot deliver success if their lives depended on it). They claim to have values of 'Brave, Imaginative and Decent (also now adding 'Accountable' but there is little evidence of any of this in the organisation I left. Staff are treated with contempt not decency as they are repeatedly urged to be proud to work for Pearson whilst at the same time being asked to work twice as hard for no more money to cover hiring gaps as yet another re recruitment freeze is put in place to preserve profit.

1.0
May 26, 2015

Run screaming.

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Pros

New Hoboken office has nice view.

Cons

Kiss-up envinorment. Lots of really stupid ideas put forth by clueless incompetent management staff that you MUST agree are brilliant or you're pegged as not being a team player. Reorgs & policy changes 3-4 times per year cause mass confusion.

1.0
Mar 21, 2015

Wake me when the reorganisation is over

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Pros

Good ideals, nice benefits, worthy cause, good restaurant.

Cons

In the past three years, Pearson has become the most dysfunctional company I have worked for in my career to date. Confused, callous, ego-driven leadership. I have never seen people treated as poorly as I have at Pearson. Talent retention and morale is low.

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