Company has gone through a lot of change. - Digital Success Specialist Cengage Employee Review

2.0
Jul 21, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

I enjoy the Employee Resource Groups, and the company has a genuinely good product.

Cons

The company has gone through a lot of change recently that was poorly handled and has had a major effect on morale. In the 2 years I have worked here, this is the second major restructuring. My responsibilities have more than tripled and I received $1 an hour raise. Pay is not competitive despite claims around salary transparency. The company does not prioritize promoting from within.

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3.0
Jun 4, 2026
Recommend
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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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