Great company, great benefits, great products that one can stand behind and be proud of. - Anonymous employee Cengage Employee Review

4.0
Jan 7, 2011
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Great Employees, team environment, have each others back, socialize alot, Management/HR is truly interested in employee morale. HR is focused on employees. Chicago Management has our backs. The Chicago office still runs like a venture capital firm, where the employees are invested in Product Development and goals that are reached are celebrated.

Cons

The Chicago Office is a part of the entire Cengage organization now. Politics and employee handbooks have creeped in where a conversation used to be the protocol. The atmosphere is much more corporate now.

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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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