Pearson Employee Reviews
Out of 324 Pearson employee reviews, 77% were positive. The remaining 23% were constructive reviews with the goal of helping Pearson improve their work culture. The Sales team, with 63% 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.
What does the leadership team need to get better at?
Be consistent and stick to the decisions you have made over time so that they can bear fruit.
Communication. Care about employees more.
Advocating for staff and students, ensuring that staff and students have what they need to be successful, and finding efficient ways to provide us with the pay that we need to survive
Following values and acting with integrity.
Everything. From the top down to an executive team that has driven the business into the ground, but lays off staff at the bottom instead of leaders who fail to perform.
Why do you feel undervalued and what would make you feel better about your compensation?
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
Honesty on part of management
Even when my division outperformed our 2021 goals, everyone only got a 3% raise - even when the market advanced 7%.
What do your coworkers need to improve and how could you work together better?
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
My coworkers already do an outstanding job. There aren't anything I would change about them besides the communication throughout the business that is about it.
Review from Sales Dept
A clear career path so that I know what steps I need to take in order to move up in the company.
What needs to change to make the company culture better?
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.
Remove nepotism from the company.
Review from IT Dept
Equal pay policies (there's supposed to be one, but there is clearly not), stop with the reorgs - it's dragging everyone down!
Review from Product Dept
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'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
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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