Pearson reviews

3.5

59% would recommend to a friend

(7,743 total reviews)
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56% approve of CEO

49% positive business outlook

Pearson has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 7,743 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
5.0
Nov 30, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Flexible, Work from Home capabilities, Global leader in education technology, global company, opportunity for advancement, great benefits, great company culture

Cons

Pearson is a very large company so it can feel as though you are stuck in a silo.

4.0
Nov 29, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

+ many very smart and genuinely nice people - a collegial environment + very little turnover. People seem to really like working here. + most everyone really cares about the work they do + great support from my manager (not sure if this true for everyone, but it is for me) + challenging work + flexible work arrangements + yearly bonuses if things are going well + working to improve office environments (should be a big improvement)

Cons

- biggest issue: pay ranges are low - most teams are understaffed - widely distributed teams, limited face-to-face interactions with some peers - decisions are very much top down, command and control is pretty much the norm - current office environments can be stifling, hard to interact with others

2.0
Nov 17, 2011

Frustrating place to work

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Decent benefits, Smart colleagues, working for a company that can potentially make a difference to the education of kids the world over

Cons

A company that makes it money from publishing books but wants desperately to be a technology company - yet has no idea how to achieve that. Messy internal systems, never-ending reorgs and non-existent communication make for very low morale.

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