Great People but little else to recommend it. - Anonymous employee Cengage Employee Review

1.0
May 27, 2015
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Great people who truly care about the job they do. Working in Higher Education publishing can be rewarding b/c you are shaping new technologies and influencing learning objectives.

Cons

Several rounds of layoffs, massive uncertainty and lack of caring about anyone but executives. Owned by equity firm who is in it for quick return, as is current management, both of whom got company through bankruptcy with promise of large payout while laying off hundreds of employees.

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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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