Pearson Education Reviews

Pros

Very nice to employees; not treated like a number.
Interesting and rewarding work.
USR is a good campus to work...lot of smart people there.

Cons

Payscale is very low.
Higher level jobs always go to outsiders.
Outdated technology in the bldg. (PC's, PDA's) hurts job performance.

Advice to Senior Management

Update the technology on a regular basis.
Hire from within.
Be more competitive with salaries (or you will continue to lose good talent).

Pros

Professional growth, caring management on a building level.

Cons

pay, changes coming down from the top

Pros

Overall, people are nice. Great location, benefits OK except for vacation time. Summer hours.

Cons

It's so big that there is very little accountability and there is a lot of dead weight, it's a place where if you keep your head down, you can get by without knocking yourself out. Management is very decentralized and there is sort of a "not my job" attitude. Not inspiring. THere is good work going on here but a lot of departments are run so completely separately that no one knows what the other is doing. Cubicle hell.

Advice to Senior Management

Make sure your employees get decent feedback, not just at review time. Some jobs are very high turnover because it's obvious that there is no growth.

Pros

Some of the employee's were nice to work with and they had good insurance and 401k.Also had some time off for holidays.

Cons

No real leadership company always going different directions seems like a movie from lost in space , There always lost somewhere.

Advice to Senior Management

Stand up for your believes and followup. Be true leaders, manages tell you things will change and get better for the processes yet they never change.

Pros

-Work/life balance
-Easy hours with no expectation of staying late
-Good benefits
-People are easy to work with
-Work with many different people

Cons

-Pay is offensively low
-Promotional opportunities offer equally offensive pay
-Impossible to support yourself on the salary
-No real upward movement without being in sales

Advice to Senior Management

-Pay a lot more money
-Stop trying to copy everything Apple does
-Stay in touch with reality when creating a company vision
-Stop obsessing with social media

Pros

-benefits are pretty good (dental, health, 401k)
-time off is good

Cons

Constant infighting to control projects. Office politics are out of control. You'll get buried in work. Very difficult at times to get answers. Managers speak in riddles and are so cryptic sometimes it's like your working at the pentagon. Job duties will change with the wind. HR is virtually non-existent. Upward mobility is also non-existent. Raises/bonuses are laughable. They don't even meet standards of living increases. Salaries are atrociously low compared to the same jobs in the same city/state.

Advice to Senior Management

Compensate your valuable employees. At least meet cost of living raises. Offer a stock gift program, something. Scratch that, just say thank you once and awhile. That would actually go much further than you think. Finding a satisfied employee in most departments is rare.

Pros

People are great and team oriented

Cons

Stressful, demanding, low pay, long hours

Advice to Senior Management

Need more life/work balanc

Pros

After the day of training, the test scoring was very easy
Free coffee definitely helps the day go by.
Everyone was easy to get along with

Cons

Projects only last a few weeks at a time.
The projects have been few and far between.

Pros

The company car and benefits are the only good things about working here.

Cons

They want you to work 60 hours a week.

Pros

Fantastic editorial and development teams. Cutting edge technology. The leaders of the company are bright and are planning for the future. The leaders of the individual groups are conducting business like the business hasn't changed.

Cons

The industry is changing rapidly, and the expectations are the same as when the imprints were competing against one another in an environment that was less hostile in terms of book prices, packages, and aggressive used book websites.