Try not to work for this company - Anonymous employee Cengage Employee Review

1.0
Nov 9, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The people were nice and the benefits were decent..

Cons

Multiple reorgs upon reorgs. New CEO seems smart but brought in some real bad people. These people manage my fear and intimidation. CPO states in public that he needs throats to choke. Really? Way to go in terms of motivating your employee base. I saw many many highly skilled hard working people fired so the CPO could bring in his friends. I finally could not take it any longer and started my job search. Glad I am out of that very unhealthy place. Avoid employment here if at all possible.

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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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