Pearson reviews

3.5

59% would recommend to a friend

(7,747 total reviews)
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Omar Abbosh

57% approve of CEO

49% positive business outlook

Pearson has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 7,747 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 Mídia e comunicação industry (3.7 stars).

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8K reviews
3.0
May 25, 2009
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Very flexible work hours and work/life balance. Summer hours: half-day Fridays from Memorial Day to Labor Day. Ability to work from home for some. Tuition reimbursement for applicable higher education courses. The company continues to do well despite the country's economy. Management provides quality feedback.

Cons

Advancement/promotion seems difficult to achieve. The raise process for me was prolonged, despite consistantly excellent reviews, quality work, and respect from managment. There's a lot of red tape. There often doesn't seem to be enough employees--there's a lot of pressure to produce a large quantity of work (at a high quality of course) and not a lot of help to do so. Despite the success of the company, they're not always forthcoming about the likliness of downsizing. Constant reorganization seems redundant and wasteful. Very little communcation between the many groups/businesses, despite an excellent opportunity to share products and knowledge.

3.0
May 14, 2009

OK.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

A comprehensive benefits package, OK compensation (sucks, but it's competitive with other companies in this market), decent people (for the most part).

Cons

No room for promotion after a certain point. Communication among departments is virtually non-existent. Though most people there are pleasant to work with, there are some rather incompetent/lazy people who screw up time and again without penalty while you're left to pick up the slack.

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