If I knew I wouldn't take the job - Senior Software Engineer Pearson Employee Review

2.0
May 25, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Large company, very diverse culture. Not much more good thing I can say about it.

Cons

Zero transparency between management and employees. New CEO is basically removing position through attrition. Long hours with little benefit. Bonus does not reflect how hard you work. Yearly performance review is a joke, basically company moto is, an average rating is a great rating. Perfect reason to give you less than 1% raise. Yea, after 3 years of working here, I basically lost about 10% of my salary through inflection.

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Pros

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