little opportunity for advancement - Anonymous employee Cengage Employee Review

3.0
Nov 13, 2012
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

great people, benefits, work life balance

Cons

there is little to no opprotunity for advancement, unless you are moving into middle management through a reorganization. it is difficult to impossible to advance outside of your particular career track. even within a particular career track, it is difficuult to impossible to get a promotion with perpetual expense freezes. all increase in salary go towards the above mentioned increase in middle management during reorgs

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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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