Pearson reviews

3.5

59% would recommend to a friend

(7,739 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 7,739 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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5.0
Aug 29, 2010

Great place to work

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Pearson has great benefits and a lot of great people working for the company. Employees seem to share passion for what the company is trying to do. The CEO visits many of the major offices every year and says that we're working to make education better, not to make profits. She says that profits are what allows us to do great things, but our primary goal should be improving education of children and adults globally. She's a solid thinker and highly admirable.

Cons

The pay for most positions seems to be a little below market value, but there are very good benefits (tuition reimbursement, 401K matching, medical/dental/vision/life insurance at very affordable rates, lots of opportunity). It can be a real issue getting people's salaries to market value once they're in the system, but I don't think that's too different from anywhere else. Sometimes you have to work long hours, but it's nothing like working at places like Google or Apple.

4.0
Aug 27, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

The highly flexible hours was the biggest perk. I was scheduled as available for scoring sessions, and I was never signed up for sessions before I OK'd them - they'd ask which sessions I could go to and schedule me for those. I don't know of any other entry-level job that schedules around the employees. The scorers - retired teachers, mostly - are also a pleasure to work with, and the scoring managers are hyper-competent.

Cons

Excessive amounts of bureaucratic paperwork - most of the job consists of filling out redundant forms and filing. Some administrators were incompetent and deeply unpleasant, but they have impeccable job security. Don't expect corporate to care about you.

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