Worst job experience yet. - Anonymous employee Cengage Employee Review

2.0
15 Feb 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

A lot of smart people used to work there. A few still do.

Cons

When I was there, they had a lot of restructuring. They proceeded to let a lot of those smart people who had domain knowledge go. After that layoff/restructuring, a lot of the remaining intelligent people left for better paying jobs. They didn't provide incentives for remaining employees to stay. Inconsistent standards for employees. A beer fridge, it was a trap. Only managers and above used it because of the attitude/shade thrown at regular employees if they indulged.

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3.0
4 Jun 2026
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CEO approval
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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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