Great place to start out, not a great place to spend any serious time - Reporting Analyst Cengage Employee Review

3.0
Oct 17, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

-small company, lots of hands on learning -ability to work independently and in a self directed manor -great experience for entry level, and people who are new to industry

Cons

-Cengage corporate has a vastly different corporate culture than the Chicago office. This clash is hurting the effectiveness of the Chicago office to run e-commerce businesses. (Chicago office was recently acquired). -Products are not doing as well as they once were. -A lot of people have left after there was a large restructuring. -Compensation is low for the industry.

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3.0
Jun 4, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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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