Company focused on students in an education industry in flux - Senior Conten Development Manager Cengage Employee Review

4.0
Mar 26, 2017
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Pros

great, dedicated, passionate, smart, kind colleagues focuses on what matters in education--the students, their needs, their reality, their goals. in recent years there has been an increased focus on investing in employee training, engagement, and empowerment content teams are working very hard to transform the learning experience to give students the best learning materials, delivered where they want them.

Cons

So many changes! We can't get our bearing between one reorg and the next. Too many technology silos providing competing platforms without a unifying vision. A frustrating disconnect between providing great products and getting customers to use them. benefits aren't competitive, salary increases are stagnant, and bonuses have been greatly reduced for most employees (and not paid for several years because of the challenging market conditions).

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Cons

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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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