Excellent work culture; Benefits and Learning Opps could be better - Anonymous employee Cengage Employee Review

4.0
2 Aug 2017
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Company culture is one of the strong aspect of this company. The Leadership team has been active too and is learning from feedback, which is impressive. Creative freedom in the team, which is important! Excellent Career growth opportunity

Cons

Benefits could be better. Vacation days are pretty less when you start(Only 2 weeks) Learning opportunity could be better wrapped and presented. Like most companies have $3-6K budget for each employee per year which can be used for certifications, training or job related stuff without asking any question, though company does allow you to take up trainings and provides ample opportunities for internal skill growth, but I feel the company can still do better interms of external skill growth

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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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