Pearson Senior Software Developer reviews

3.9

83% would recommend to a friend

(85 total reviews)
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Omar Abbosh

100% approve of CEO

74% positive business outlook

Senior Software Developer employees have rated Pearson with 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 85 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Senior Software Developer professionals have a good working experience there. Pearson is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Senior Software Developer professionals compared to other employers within the Audiovisual y medios de comunicación industry (3.7 stars).

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2.0
Apr 16, 2015
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Pros

Work life balance was good most the time.

Cons

Constant state of re-org. Like almost every 6 months teams were re-factored. Many projects start up after back too school, and expect to be 'production ready' in months for next year. Identity crisis. Do they build content? Are they a platform company? Is Management just chasing the cheese and your along for the ride? Walking into a college and when the students find out who you work for, they want to string you up. Getting hardware/software licenses was difficult. And commonly, if you did it seemed to be a hand-me-down. Strange environment where its like marketing, but has a massive overhead of engineering so waterfall and agile all smashed to gather into you having 5 bosses and unattainable goals.

3.0
Jan 31, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Good Work Life balance Friendly Environment

Cons

Very traditional and slow growth Since the company is in a small town, most people know each other and it's difficult to join the clique, hence you progress slowly career wise Company politics harms innovation and gives fewer learning opportunities.

2.0
Aug 7, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Lots of opporopportunity if you're fresh out of college. Non-management workers have a "We're in this together" attitude and really care about one another. Telecommuting OK. Leave matches industry standards.

Cons

Raises never match inflation, so true earning power decreases over time. Older, more senior employees are not given opportunity to move to another area and are usually the first ones out the door. Alleged reorganization is only adding layers of management, redundancy, and confusion. Legacy system replacements are many times more expensive than system being replaced and never work correctly.

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