Pearson Reviews

3.5

60% would recommend to a friend

(7,725 total reviews)
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Omar Abbosh

57% approve of CEO

49% positive business outlook

Pearson has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 7,725 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Pearson employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Media and communication industry (3.7 stars).

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1.0
1 Nov 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Few things that are worth mentioning are moderate pay, equals the market. HR teams conducts events, gatherings pretty often. Office is in the centre of the city.

Cons

Brace yourself, there are plenty of cons. 1. Not so good pay package. 2. Hikes are too less. 3. Bonus is not reasonable. 4. Too much of politics. 5. HR teams just listen to what superior tells about you, generally personal problems with you. 6. Mark your attendance every day. Otherwise, deal with managers in person or loss of pay even though you are in office, they still feel IT techies are in school. 7. No parking space. 8. No cafeteria. 9. No work life Balance. 10. HR expects you to be in office by 9, but your teams wants you to be till 11:30pm in the night. Both of the expectations has to be met and if not, your appraisals goes for a toss. These silly points are considered for reasoning you when you ask them for your rating or bonus. Ridiculous and stupidity. 11. Managers and HR expect you to be in office for minimum 9 hours even after completing work. 12. No Work From Home option. 13. Attending late night meetings from home also is not entertained. 14. No food available after 7pm in the surroundings. You either pack your food for dinner or order online. 15. Get ready to pay police fines for your vehicles being towed away. You have to park your vehicle on the road. Very limited parking space and company doesn’t even care about security of vehicles. 16. Car Parking’s are one more bizarre. Cars are parked too close to each other, many at times drivers handle your cars too harshly and end up getting scratches. Especially in Bangalore Divyasree chambers office. 17. Managers are stagnant in this company from decades. These people don’t have any knowledge about the IT industry. Managers doesn’t know and don’t encourage conferences, exploring technologies or new initiatives are completely discouraged. 18. Attending training’s aren’t encouraged. 19. People work on AWS but no one knows even basics of the AWS, they just write code from google or stacktrace. 20. Process and standards are too outdated. 21. No planning, no foresight. We will be asked to work on weekends, late nights, on public holidays. And no overtime is paid, or no allowance. If you feel your career is precious to you, this company is not for you. Otherwise if you just want to pass time with absolutely no learning, you can think about it.

1.0
10 Nov 2015

Too Many mistakes committed . Pearson will pay high price for the same

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Once upon a time some pros were there, but nothing exists now.

Cons

Completely intellectually incapable people running the show here. Have no idea what they are building, and why they are building. Too many cooks at the kitchen is spoiling the game for Pearson. Meaningless reorganization without any clarity and goal in mind . No clear roadmap in place. Technology space is always changing.

1.0
4 Apr 2022

Worst 3 Years of My Life

Anonymous employee
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Pros

The coworkers I had were great and the WTT office was nice. The benefits and allowances were competent.

Cons

Oh, where do I start?! My advice to anyone who's considering joining Pearson Noida is that find out who your prospective manager would be and reach out to prospective teammates to learn about the manager. If your role will be aligned to US or UK team, enquire about work hours, etc. in advance and figure out your JD properly so that you don't end up being an assistant to first world white people despite being a bright and intelligent person. A lot of HR policies look good on paper but the reality is absolutely opposite. The HR will often tell you that xyz option is available but only at your manager's discretion. So, if your manager does not like you, you'll be stuck in a helpless position. You won't get promotions, you'll be overburdened with work and scrutinised about how you spend each minute of each day. Nobody will help you. I had filed an anonymous complaint against my manager but barring a couple of changes, things got worse (even though the investigation concluded in my favour). Even after I resigned, I was threatened (against company's policies) that my notice period will be extended! I got Covid during my 60-day notice period but wasn't allowed leaves. My resignation wasn't approved for 28 days, due to which my salary was put on hold. I kept asking my manager to tell me who I was supposed to train and repeatedly requested to decrease my notice period. I even offered to encash all my leaves against my remaining working days but two people's ego is more important in this company than an individual's peace of mind, future and dignity. I had to call lawyers and external HR executives to understand my rights and fight back to get my resignation approved, forget having my notice period reduced. When I joined Pearson, I was an enthusiastic and ambitious young woman and three years here turned me into a cynical, depressed, passionless drone. I would never recommend Pearson to anyone about whom I care even a little.

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Pearson Response
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Thank you for sharing your feedback. What you’ve described here is concerning. I would welcome the opportunity to learn more about your experience. Please feel free to send me an email directly: Ali.Bebo@pearson.com. Thank you.
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