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Mar 15, 2016

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Decent benefits offered (vacation, health insurance, etc.) Interesting coworkers.

Cons

Multiple rounds of layoffs in the past few years as the upper management reorgs and reorgs again. It's a time of disruption and upheaval in publishing, but Pearson in particular has managed itself poorly. It laid off the people actually responsible for some very profitable and well regarded products in the US in 2016 while the execs who totally missed on their growth projections for 2015 remain in their jobs. (Pearson made over a billion US in profit in 2015, but was 25% off its forecast for growth -- hence the stated reason for layoffs.) It wants to be a software company, but doesn't seem willing to actually spend up front what is necessary for enough good tech staff to make that happen.

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