Sales - Cengage - Anonymous employee Cengage Employee Review

3.0
12 Aug 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Good people - very friendly and supportive Good place to start a career Great work/life balance and reasonable hours

Cons

Terrible progression - no opportunity whatsoever to progress within the company. Management had a tendency to give increasingly bullish demands with very little compensation - monetary or otherwise No flexible work arrangements Very low salary compared to others in the same industry The industry is dying and no-one will admit it - sales go down and management become worried and expectations of the staff go up which is unfair

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3.0
4 Jun 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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