Pearson Reviews

3.5

59% would recommend to a friend

(7,744 total reviews)
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56% approve of CEO

48% positive business outlook

Pearson has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 7,744 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 Media and communication industry (3.7 stars).

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8K reviews
1.0
16 Mar 2017

Once a good place to work at

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Pros

Good people to work with, some very talent. Good benefits, and fair wages

Cons

Poor senior management, don't know what they are doing (and I believe they don't know what they are doing either). Restructuring every two to three years, but change worse every time. Departments are playing politics with each other, not doing real work anymore.

2.0
4 May 2019

A once great company

Anonymous employee
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Pros

The company has an glorious past and an admirable mission. The front line staff are great people to work with.

Cons

While the company had to reinvent itself with the demise of publishing and changing education free, the way it was done is being poor. It's been in cost-cutting mode for years and most of the talent has left at the senior level. Many people seem to be waiting for their redundancy package and the mood of the company generally poor.

2.0
26 Apr 2016

Finance

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Can manage work life balance for some departments; pay and benefits package on par with other multi-national corporations, convenient location

Cons

management needs to be strengthened, top line not growing and just focus on costs cut; lots of restructuring; process and tools lots of rooms to improve

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