no room for growth - Project Manager Cengage Employee Review

3.0
Nov 29, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

some very nice and hard working people there. if you need your head down and do not make wakes you can get by so if you are in it for the pay and benefits its a great fit. the benefits are good and you have to flexibility for your family.

Cons

if you cross the wrong person you can be shut out. change is slow and getting your ideas to the rights person is difficult. if you are not in the in group and can be shut out. No neutral party that you can talk to if you have an issues. good people are let go and mediocre people hang around or get promoted.

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3.0
Jun 4, 2026
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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