Not good, but not terrible. - Anonymous employee Cengage Employee Review

2.0
Mar 28, 2012
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

In general, people are friendly and easy to talk to. Management supports flexible working hours, and it is not difficult to get time off.

Cons

Unprofessional behavior is tolerated: yelling, swearing, and sarcastic emails are all commonplace. Projects are not planned well. Deadlines are unrealistic, and staffing levels are inadequate. Vendors are not managed well. As a result, employees are continually scrambling to work around the vendors' half-baked products and services.

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3.0
Jun 4, 2026
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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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