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      Pearson Software Engineer reviews

      3.8

      71% would recommend to a friend

      (155 total reviews)
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      Omar Abbosh

      81% approve of CEO

      56% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      4.3

      Work/Life balance

      4.1

      Diversity & inclusion

      4.0

      Culture & values

      3.5

      Senior management

      3.5

      Compensation and benefits

      3.2

      Career opportunities

      Software Engineer employees have rated Pearson with 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 155 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Engineer professionals have a good working experience there. Pearson is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Media & Communication industry (3.7 stars).

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      155 reviews
      1.0
      Feb 6, 2015

      REORG is only good if you live in Sri Lanka or Inda - LOOSING US JOBS - ALL KINDS not just Software Dev jobs

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Love building products that support education, flexible hours/schedules, very bright, dedicated people.

      Cons

      Jobs are vanishing from the US. People all around Pearson need to pay attention as the reorg continues, high paying jobs will stay in UK (Empire) and all others off-shored to India or SL. Moral is very low, management is saying that certain areas are 'growing' but are not forthcoming as to 'which' jobs. I am being asked to build things that will be handed off-shore. Sad to see more US jobs leaving the continent while big tax breaks are given to these Corp Giants. Managers are looking out for themselves to hold on to their jobs and "training budgets". If you work for Pearson US in any division, be prepared at all times to find other employment. Some jobs will stay, but many will go away - don't fall for the illusion. If you are in SL or India - many things to come your way. US 'open' positions may just be temporary.

      3.0
      Jan 10, 2015

      Fun Place

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      refactoring and trying to do the right thing

      Cons

      management changes made it hard to see a clear purpose and direction.

      3.0
      Sep 4, 2014

      Great ideals and purpose. Reality is a little less than great.

      Software developer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      "Always Learning" is a wonderful slogan. Strong emphasis on picking up new skills and branching out into new areas of responsibility. Latitude for making mistakes while learning encourages picking up and trying again. The people here are very intelligent and diverse. Work-from-home every Friday is nice, as is the flexibility to work from home other days on an as-needed basis. Technology pretty much makes it easy to continue work with others fluidly.

      Cons

      Management is confused and out of touch. We get our work done despite them, not because of them. They are frequently blockers to our progress. Reorgs happen with enough regularity that it is hard to get experts on any of the codebases, which leads to a lot of needless investigation (because documentation is unnecessary, being Agile as we are). Communication is horrible. The only way to know the movement in the company is to listen to the rumor mill or overhear things in the lunchroom. My manager has two teams and frequently we find out last-minute that something the other team has done will break our code. Decisions made months ago in their silo are now causing panics on the production servers. And on a different day, "oh yeah, we hired a new guy. He's starting tomorrow." with no one on our team interviewing him (including the Team Lead).

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