Pearson reviews

- Company wants to be a “tech company,” but the talent, tech stack, and leadership capability don’t match the audacious, shareholder-driven goals - Unstable organization: frequent leadership changes, power dynamics, cost cutting, and restructures -Lowball salaries; very stingy with compensation and benefits - Does not want to hire top talents to fulfill ambitious goals and keep the systems running - Little to no process, accountability, or clarity in roles and responsibilities - Pushes AI heavily without clear business use cases—often feels like vaporware for optics - Preference for lower-cost employees (less experienced hires, interns) over needed expertise - Outdated tech stack, no budget for modern tools, and constant buzzword pivots with no clear vision - not a place to come to work if you want to feel valued - Gallup survey results can't be trusted. Direct reports are pushed to filter negative feedback through management before responding, undermining the integrity of the survey. - Managers ask direct reports to commit time outside of work and weekend despite salaried roles and no overtime - High stress, constant chaos due to poor planning, prioritization, and limited budgets - inflated leadership; have budget to expand the leadership team but no funds for the people actually doing the operational work. - no thought leadership or clear, consistent direction Avoid! A company that doesn't value the people doing the actual work

- No promotion for many years - "Leaders" keeps changing. They mess things up, take their golden parachute to be taken over by new "leaders", rinse and repeat. - Heavily vendor dependent. They want to outsource just about anything - Many VPs, SVPs but almost no engineers, people with hand-on skills. You cannot ideate and build anything - Lately people from Accenture came and made multi year deals with Cognizant Deloitte HCL IBM etc. and laid off people who spent 2-3 decades - Low pay - Internal bickering and politics, favoritism will drain your energy and motivation to contribute anything. Either you get work to do because you are your manager's buddy, relative, same color etc or you do nothing and get paid till you get fired - SVPs and VPs invest in many startups and try to get those companies in without any due diligence so that they can profit from its success.