Working at Cengage Learning is motivational - Senior Systems Analyst Cengage Employee Review

5.0
May 26, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

• Management that is market-visionary, not intimidated by challenges, transparent, and trusting that the many hands and minds of its employees are the way to succeed. • Mission that is inspiring: changing the education landscape by offering truly worthwhile products at lower prices, to better connect students with the joy and rewards of learning.

Cons

Much of the company revenue comes from the higher education market, which has seen lower student enrollments for the past 5 years, and which is, appropriately, highly sensitive to price. Cengage Learning management has been visionary and has created a great culture for the job of attacking the market pressures, but the market pressures can certainly be seen as a con.

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Pros

Total rewards, time off, great people and culture

Cons

Lots of changes and uncertainty at times

3.0
Jun 4, 2026
Recommend
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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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