Pearson Outlook Employee Reviews | Comparably
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Pearson Outlook Employee Reviews

What makes you most happy at work?

Partner with professors and helping students I do enjoy helping people. I have a few coworkers I enjoy working with, but that's far a few in between.

Review from Sales Dept

Being able to add value and deliver products that impact people's lives positively.

Great pay, and great people.

Co workers & working with candidates to provide the best testing experience possible so they can take their test in a calm relaxed enviroment.Wanting candidates to succeed in their goals in life. Sometimes you get clients taking the same test a few times and it great to see them when they pass.

I love the fact that my work may directly improve someone's life.

The banter with my colleagues is fun.

my work is exciting, and the atmosphere is healthy

Committing to successfully assisting the candidates with all their testing needs and keeping them satisfied with our performance so that they will always return and ultimately, share and assist others to schedule their testing needs as well.

The team likes to grow together.

The best I've experienced so far

Learning new skills and being part of new initiatives.

Review from Operations Dept

My clients and my team

The freedom of working from home!

to be able to work remotely

being able to work from home every day (no more commute)

Working with colleagues and helping people

Interacting with people making the best choices for their student(s) educational journey. People are my favorite!

Productivity and knowing I helped someone grow, learn, or gain confidence in themselves.

Setting, pursuing and completing monthly goals

The people I work with

What's going wrong and how can it be improved?

Centralisation from the Global team

Pearson is too slow to adapt to changing market.

retain staff and structures. Stop change for changes sake

V hard to improve. Customers see company as death star fundamentally against their best interests.

The education systems are failing our young population, and high-stakes testing is making that failure the fault of the teachers and children, when it should be about getting the proper funding for schools.

Review from Product Dept

I think the higher ups/CEO’s/executive leaders don’t do enough to help the front lines. They don’t understand exactly wh

current struggles around digital transformation and implementing a DevOps/Agile/Lean program organization-wide

Review from IT Dept

What do you like best about your company?

Their product philosophy is something to be proud of

Good work life balance. Hands off management.

my manager

What would you most like to see improved at your company?

Embracing innovation and change; evolving the workplace; embracing telework, independence and agile methodologies

organize

Review Sentiment at Pearson

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About Pearson's Outlook

D
55/100

Where This Score Ranks Pearson's Outlook

BOTTOM
15%

In the Bottom 15% of 1226 similar size companies on Comparably

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Not enough ratings to compare against competitors

Pearson's Outlook is scored a D by 772 employee ratings based upon answers to questions such as “How confident are you about the future success of your company?” Pearson's Outlook score negatively contributes to their overall culture score, due partly to the fact that the Design department’s negative scores cause Outlook to be one of Pearson's weaker culture attributes amongst employees. Use the filters below to understand Pearson employee perspectives by Department, Gender, Ethnicity, and Experience. Last updated a day ago.

Rate Outlook the Highest

  • Department - Customer Support
    +34%
  • Department - Operations
    +29%
  • Ethnicity - Other
    +20%

Rate Outlook the Lowest

  • Tenure - 2 to 5 Years
    -17%
  • Department - Design
    -14%
  • Department - Engineering
    -11%

How Pearson's Outlook Score is Calculated

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Results from 407 Employees in All Departments, All Genders, All Ethnicities and All Yrs. Experience Experience

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How confident are you about the future success of your company?
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Fantastic7%
Good33%
Neutral30%
Bad19%
Terrible11%
How do your customers perceive your company?
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Yes52%
No48%
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