Pearson reviews

3.5

60% would recommend to a friend

(7,728 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 7,728 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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4.0
Jun 22, 2008
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Pros

Fellow employees. A Bachelors degree minimum is required to work as a Pearson "Peak Employee," as they are known, so everyone around you has a level of education higher than the average population. They know what I'm talking about, and I know what they're talking about. Low level of stress (most of the time) - you score achievement tests all day. Interesting mix of states - Pearson contracts with different state's departments of education to score that state's tests. Every state is slightly different in the way they want their tests scored.

Cons

Job is temporary. Facility is open and operational only as long as Pearson has tests to score, which is not the entire year. When the kids are out of school, and before the next year's tests start to come in (July thru Oct), there is no work. Work through the school year is sporadic, though management IS trying to bring work in to fill up the whole year.

2.0
Jun 20, 2008
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Pros

The people there are okay. Easy to talk to/get along with. The benefits are reasonable with healthcare and eye tests included.

Cons

Management is very inept and incompetent at all levels. No career progression, job roles arfe very dull and limited. The management are pen pushers who work to statistics and numbers without considering anything else. As long as all their figures are in place then nothing else matters. Most of the team leaders cannot lead seeing as they don't know anything about the job that the team is doing (especially the technical roles). I think this is common with a lot of offices in the UK - management are piss poor at best.

3.0
Jun 16, 2008

Great Benefits - but worth it?

Anonymous employee
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Pros

benefits package is pretty good: ample vacation/personal/sick time, very flexible with balancing work/personal issues, good office location

Cons

poor communication, poor pay, often unfair in promotions and hiring of new employees

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