Avoid at all Costs - Senior Software Developer Pearson Employee Review

1.0
21 Dec 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Work/Life balance Corporate minutiae keeps things from every really crunching

Cons

Cronyism. Bonuses are abysmal. Compensation is under market rate. Not a culture of cultivating or retaining talent. I had a manager tell me what a good idea it is to burn and turn junior employees to do all the hard work. Talented employees rarely stick around once they figure out the lay of the land. Share price is flat and will continue to remain that way thanks to a thick layer of middle management and mediocre decision makers that are often at odds with reason. They beat a moral drum about education being some higher purpose and expect people to just go along with it while nothing really improves.

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5.0
29 Jun 2026
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Pros

Lunch time is the only pro

Cons

Management sucks, I hate having to request for time off because I never get it

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2.0
6 Jul 2026
Recommend
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Pros

From home and relaxed working environment

Cons

They never know when the project will end or start so you can’t line up other work. Projected end 16th and we end 10 days early? Thats a lot of wages now I don’t have.

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