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      What are we really trying to do here, people? - Product Management Cengage Employee Review

      3.0
      Apr 24, 2013
      Product management
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      Some of the smartest people I've ever worked with here at Gale, a part of Cengage Learning. Most are friendly and helpful. Management is very approachable and will make time to actually sit and talk with you. Technology development has transitioned to Agile, which has helped in getting new projects up and running.

      Cons

      The technology development group seems locked in on using, and re-using, older technology. Instead of fixing bad code, they are content to buy more, bigger, faster hardware in the hopes of keeping performance at the user end acceptable. Pay is a little on the low side and annual raises are 2% and less.

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      3.0
      Jun 4, 2026
      Director of marketing
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      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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