Not good for your career - Product Management Cengage Employee Review

2.0
Feb 24, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The office is very nice and modern, with great views from some locations. There's even a shaded outdoor balcony offering a pleasant place to eat lunch on warm days. The neighborhood is off the beaten path in a new office development area, so everything is super clean, quiet, and calm. It is like a suburban island surrounded by a city.

Cons

Working here feels like being a prisoner on a sinking ship constant restructuring and layoffs. No career advancement opportunities. If you are one of the lucky few to get a promotion, you will be next on the layoff list because of your (tiny) bump in pay. When someone is laid off, frequently a very similar job is posted with a slightly different job title and a much lower salary. Meanwhile, employees that remain with the company are doing more work for the same pay and fewer benefits. Everyone I know is looking for jobs with other companies, especially in other industries.

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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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