Pearson reviews

3.5

60% would recommend to a friend

(7,727 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 7,727 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
4.0
Oct 1, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

As a text book publisher, Pearson has the unique privilege of educating today's youth as well as professionals in many diverse fields. Being comprised of K-12, Higher Education, International and Technology divisions makes this a very dynamic environment for individuals to find opportunities. Pearson also has locations across the company (and the world) that make for interesting travel experiences as well as a great deal of relocation opportunities.

Cons

You need to make your own way and define your own growth and professional development goals. There is not much mentoring nor is their a lot of training or cross pollination of knowledge across groups. It takes a very strong career minded person driven to succeed on their own in order to find success here.

4.0
Sep 30, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The people working for Pearson are typically educated and professional. Since it is a publishing company you find a fair number of women working there. The environment is professional, but less corporate than other big companies. The company tries to offer work/life balance by offering back up child care as well as family leave act.

Cons

There seems to be a lack of advancement opportunities, and many departments would rather have you work a lot of hours instead of hiring the necessary staff. Hard to get appropriate salary raises when needed, so if you start off with a low salary it will be hard to catch up. I have heard of people leaving, just to come back a year later and make $20-$30 K more. As managers are usually super busy and over-worked, performance appraisals and mentoring of employees seem to suffer.

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