There's no better time to join than now - Anonymous employee Cengage Employee Review

5.0
Dec 18, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

When do you ever hear that company's executive team is "doing everything right?" At Cengage. They do—and I still can't believe that I'm saying that. From admitting that the industry is broken and doing something about it (holy crap, Cengage Unlimited) to regular all-hand-on-deck communications, to many other company-wide culture and performance initiatives. Oh, plus a 12-week paid paternity leave and a great work/life balance.

Cons

Even though the executive team is pretty new, many of employees have been there for a long time and change is not as welcomed.

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Cons

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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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