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      People leave leadership, not the company - Marketing Cengage Employee Review

      1.0
      Nov 19, 2013
      Marketing
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      I'm hard pressed to think of the positives. The products are well designed and serve a noble purpose and important markets. And, there's time to peruse the job boards.

      Cons

      Leadership is inbred and unqualified. They couldn't find shoes in a shoe box let alone a strategy to save them from bankruptcy. I've never had so many opportunities to say, "this is like a scene out of Office Space." They keep promoting people to their next level of incompetency (men to VPs and the women to middle management). Don't expect to see people of color until after 5 when the cleaning crew starts.

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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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