Good People in a Constantly Changing Company - Anonymous employee Cengage Employee Review

3.0
Jul 23, 2013
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great people--smart, talented, innovative, hardworking, professional, collaborative, efficient, caring, and friendly. Constant cross-functional work. Company goal is appropriate for the ever-changing higher education market.

Cons

Constant C-level leadership changes affecting all departments (3 within the last 1 1/2 years) has not allowed employees to settle into their roles and to see the fruits of their labor, contributing to low morale.

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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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