Pearson reviews

Working at Pearson was like walking through peanut butter. Nothing ever gets accomplished and you are always mired in bureaucracy where the right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing and most likely doesn't care anyway. This can be bad if you actually care about what you are doing at your job or need to have meaningful outcomes. Eventually you find yourself arguing about data with your neighbor and wondering how you got there. There are no career opportunities that I could see of and I couldn't figure out who was really running anything so I could schmooze my way to the top. Luckily I got laid off before I got too old to be employable but just barely.

The environment is so toxic. If you speak to your manager in private about something, they'll tell other employees. I've learnt personal, private things about other employees that were said in confidence because it's such a gossip heavy environment. I know things I've said in confidence have been told to other people. They'll berate in front of everyone you for not saying "yes" and agreeing to anything management says, and definitely play favorites. Some people say one things and are loved because they're the favorites of management, but if someone else says it, they're crucified. Some people are rewarded for bad behavior and get to push all their work off on other people. Women and people of color have been reprimanded for speaking up, but sexist comments by men are brushed off as "not a real issue". Adding to all that, there's been a reorg and layoffs for all five years that I've been here. Each reorg makes management's jobs easier, but puts more of a burden on the employees. Management loves to tell people they have to learn new things without help or resources, and asking for resources is likely to get you on the blacklist.