Layoffs, Layoffs, Layoffs - Senior Project Manager Pearson Employee Review

1.0
16 Mar 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

--It's a creative, collaborative environment. Coworkers were by far the best part about the company. --Fairly generous career counseling and severance provided after they lay you off.

Cons

--Layoffs, year after year. Sometimes multiple per year. --Constant restructuring, renaming, rebranding, reorganizing --Deceptive, cowardly, lazy middle management --Incompetence at leadership level --Completely worthless Human Resources, at least in the Austin office --May sound naive, but there's 0 loyalty here. None. No effort to retain top performers

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Cons

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