Great place to work - Software Engineer Cengage Employee Review

5.0
7 Nov 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Nowadays, all companies preach work/life balance, treat your employees well, etc. This is the first place that I've worked that actually practices it. They treat us well and seem to care that we have a life outside of work.

Cons

The GPT Start Program training was great but I had been here about 5 moths before I got to go to it. I was on a 3 month contract to hire and after getting hired it took a couple of months to get to go to it. Having the training earlier would have been much better.

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5.0
28 Mar 2026
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Pros

Total rewards, time off, great people and culture

Cons

Lots of changes and uncertainty at times

3.0
4 Jun 2026
Recommend
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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