Have you noticed... - Senior Content Developer Cengage Employee Review

1.0
22 Nov 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Not applicable to the discussion at hand.

Cons

...how every negative review of this company is answered by a post from the company refuting the claim of the person making the negative comment. As a former employee, who has made such a comment, only to have it rebuffed by the company I would like to add that if the company put as much time into making its workers feel as important to them as their reputation on sites like this, instead of like the serfs they treated us as, then perhaps they wouldn't have to pay people to argue so many negative comments. Just saying is all.

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3.0
4 Jun 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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