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      Would Not Recommend to Anyone I Like - Anonymous employee Cengage Employee Review

      2.0
      Jul 20, 2018
      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      Cengage has good products and does a great job building tools to help facilitate higher education learning. This is all done at a great cost to the employees...please refer to cons.

      Cons

      Cengage has little to no concern for work / personal life balance. Employees are sucked dry/overworked and work in fear. The people culture is the worst I have seen and I have worked for many companies in management roles. It is a toxic environment with the 'E Suite' being ruthless and this behavior trickles down. There are many good people but sadly, they either leave or are forced out and are in no position to change the culture. Additionally, they grossly underpay especially for the amount of work they demand.

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      3.0
      Jun 4, 2026
      Director of marketing
      Recommend
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      Business outlook

      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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