Great Place to Project My Career - Principal Software Engineer Pearson Employee Review

4.0
Feb 27, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Some of the brightest people working together. Tough business and technical challenges to help with. Good overall benefits. People are good.

Cons

Unfortunate financial situation and poor senior technical leadership is causing this place to struggle. Product doesn't know what to build to generate a new stream of revenue. Architects are so far removed from the teams that it's hard to get anything technical accomplished or coordinated. Slowly the benefits and people have/are going away. Starting to outsource a variety of jobs including some portion of technical ones.

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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

Pay is reasonable for working in the education field but is slightly lower than working in other parts of tech.

2.0
Jul 13, 2026
Recommend
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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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