Great place to work if you want to make a difference - Executive Director Cengage Employee Review

5.0
8 May 2014
Recommend
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Pros

The reorganization and Chapter 11 breathed new life in our organization. It is not without its growing pains, and things don't necessarily look the same as they did when we were multiple autonomous businesses under one umbrella, but I don't look the same as I did either. This is a great place to work if you embrace change and challenge. There is opportunity to stretch your limits and contribute if you want. Executive leadership is much more open and transparent than in years prior and sometimes honesty hurts, but its refreshing and makes me more confident in the future.

Cons

As a result of our transition, there are many new processes being implemented and lots of new buzzwords and acronyms. Change is happening quickly. If you can't learn on the fly and adapt easily to change, this is not the place for you.

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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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