Stay away if you are looking for a developer position - Media Developer Pearson Employee Review

1.0
May 1, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

When the company is doing well, they do payout a bonus. However, the company hasn't been doing well for years.

Cons

There's minimal amount of development work involved in the position even though it is advertised as a developer position. Majority of the development job has been outsourced to offshore vendors. It's a mundane job with lots of cutting and pasting. The workload is unrealistic and it is not distributed evenly among team members. Instead of hiring full time employees, they hire co-op students to do majority of the work. For full time employees, that means training a new batch of students every three to four months. If you want to improve your skill as a developer, this is not a suitable job for you.

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5.0
Jun 5, 2026
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Pros

Working on EdTech and helping improve educational outcome. Caring coworkers, altruistic & mission driven, etc.

Cons

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2.0
Jul 13, 2026
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Pros

Decent pay. Not much else.

Cons

No lunch break, no breaks in general, can’t go to the bathroom for hours on end, the managers’ daughter gets special treatment because her mother is in charge. Constant criticism and unfair treatment.

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