Project Manager - Anonymous employee Cengage Employee Review

3.0
Jun 1, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great company, and the best people to work with. Everyone is kind, helpful, and very fun to work with. Also, it's a great position to get a bird's eye view of how the whole company works.

Cons

They are laying people off left and right. I would enjoy my job a lot more if my job didn't feel threatened every selling season.

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3.0
Jun 4, 2026
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CEO approval
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Pros

Company has some interesting approaches to the market and in the past they seemed value employees. There are some good employees there and there was, in the past, visionary leadership, but the people with the vision and leadership skills left the company a few years ago.

Cons

The company actively de-values employees. They had a project they called "Project Horizon" where they told all employees they needed to cut costs, so the company was going to have multiple layoffs over 3-5 years - but nobody was allowed to know when, where, or why - - just one day large swaths of people would be gone. That hung over everyone's heads - for years, and is indicative of how Cengage values employees - it doesn't. Everything is about trying to secure new funding and prepare for an IPO, so they stopped investing significantly in the products about 3 years ago and that's about when they stopped acting like they cared about employee wellness as well.

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