Project Manager - Manager Cengage Employee Review

2.0
15 Oct 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Nice coworkers, good location, care about the product being made, educational.

Cons

Morale is so much lower than when I started working here, and many are looking elsewhere. The raises provided are insulting, and many other red flags are showing up, indicating the company is cutting corners when it comes to pay and benefits. Just found out that our new health insurance provider will be Aetna, which I've heard nothing but terrible things about, and always viewed as the policy cheap companies revert to. Not only is pay stagnant and unable to keep up with Boston's cost of living, but I see no hope for growing with the company as I initially thought I could. Incredibly discouraged at this point.

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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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