Pearson Employee Reviews
Out of 367 Pearson employee reviews, 75% were positive. The remaining 25% were constructive reviews with the goal of helping Pearson improve their work culture. The Operations team, with 83% positive reviews, reports the best experience at Pearson compared to all other departments at the company. The Product team offered the most constructive feedback, with 44% of that department's reviews constructive in nature.
Briefly describe your overall experience at your company
Posted 7 days ago
What do you like best about the leadership team?
Straight forward, too busy and competitive
Posted 7 days ago
They do seem interested in improving our performance
Everything, professional, helpful and wonderful
They are patient, they care, and their time is precious and very sensitive.
Omar’s background is interesting though I would have expected more humane valu
What does the leadership team need to get better at?
Being customer centric, stop polishing bad news, stop punishing those who raise concerns
Litening to their employees, understanding the realmissues and root causes
Caring. Listening. Understanding what our company does and comes to us for. People come to us because we are NOT a specific tech company, but rather educational experts who work with tech. People now worry that to even disagree constructively and privately is now to be marked out as "unsupportive"
Be consistent and stick to the decisions you have made over time so that they can bear fruit.
Communication. Care about employees more.
What is the best part about your compensation package?
competitive than other company the best
Posted 7 days ago
401k and Medical plus stock
The rate of pay every two weeks
I enjoy the overtime, the hours are long, but it's worth it
Package wise Pearson is a good company..no issue.
Why do you feel undervalued and what would make you feel better about your compensation?
If the quota calculations were correct, legal, and not a constant moving target. Changing territory structure after 90 days is disruptive and a mess
Measurement is not transparent enough
More opportunties to progress. Clear expectations. Decisions based on data rather than favoritism
Recently, Pearson has not been rehiring design positions that are vacant from coworkers being fired or leaving on their own. We are doing more for the same amount, and the annual Cost of living raises do not match inflation or our output.
Pay is abysmal at Pearson and it's very commonplace for a new hire to come into the business making more than the person they're working alongside/replacing.
Review from IT Dept
What are some of the best things about your team?
we work together like helping them
Their helpful, kind and wiling to ak question when it's needed, each employee knows how to engage respecfully with one another
My immediate colleagues are very competent, care deeply about what they do, and are supportive too.
Colleagues are the best, at least for venting.
Individual contributors got into this business because the majority care about education and learning and I see that across teams
What do your coworkers need to improve and how could you work together better?
We work together well because we are all doing the job of three people.
To Hire high quality people
Better leadership that acts with integrity and doesn't make up lies
Develop a plan and stick to it. Stop getting in each other's way. Allow people to fail and learn. Trust your employees.
There are too many cliques in the department. No one trusts anyone else to help with their work.
Review from Product Dept
What is most positive about the culture and environment at your company?
business ownership customer centricity quality of work
Posted 7 days ago
When we are becoming a family
The immediate team. Over the last 18 months the board has made the team dread their involvement or interactions with them.
I work at my lovely home
always learning, this does not change
What needs to change to make the company culture better?
Leadership, need to listen and we need something to be excited about and to believe in
Pay, transparency, allowing change to settle
Leadership doublespeak is hard to follow, continuous growth, AI evolution mindset seems shortsighted
Better leaders that value employees and the company values
Executive leadership and accountability for all managers. Managers are promoted without ever receiving people training. There is a focus on output and not developing leaders and people within teams.
What did you like most about the interview process?
Getting to actually interact with the technical teams I would be working with.
Review from IT Dept · Posted 12 days ago
Every person was lovely to meet
I didn't mean to select negative, that isn't true, but the process was smooth and very easy as it was done in a timely fashion
Straightforward. However the checks were inefficient after the offer was made. HR also disregard instructions at times - e.g. I have said that a degree is absolutely not required and they still screen out non degree applications for entry roles unless you very actively get involved.
Interviewers were friendly and open
What would you improve about your company's interview process?
Make sure a HR rep is present for all interviews.
Review from IT Dept
To hire a more diverse hiring panel
What makes you most happy at work?
when I can help the students
Engaging with my peers and having our communication time together interaction as a team
My team. My work. Talking to our students and teachers.
Get to work with some really nice people - friends
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
What's going wrong and how can it be improved?
Different leadership strategy, invest in products worth buying and people,
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.
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
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