Managing Editor - Managing Editor Cengage Employee Review

2.0
Jul 1, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Because job titles don't seem to correspond to the level and extent of job tasks and responsibilities entrusted to (or "thrown at," depending upon your perspective) employees, there are lots of opportunity to take on tasks that would normally be outside of your job description at other companies. This can lead to exciting opportunities and professional growth. You are not a cog in the wheel here, and are instead often expected to do all the jobs of making the wheel turn.

Cons

Because job titles don't seem to correspond to the level and extend of job tasks and responsibilities, employees are often expected to perform tasks and take on responsibilities that are well beyond their experience and job description. There is also an astonishing lack of accountability so that a competent employee may be in a position of having to pull the weight of various underperforming colleagues. The middle management is power-mad and ego-driven and deaf to input from employees. Employees are scared to speak out.

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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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