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      Not the best place to be right now - Anonymous employee Cengage Employee Review

      2.0
      Aug 22, 2008
      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      The office is in a good location, and is a friendly place for the most part. They try to instill a good atmosphere where people can feel good about going in each day.

      Cons

      The company has been undergoing significant changes for many years now. It is now owned by a holding company and will likely be sold and sold again if the owners are not happy with the profits, which are not looking good. Prices are coming up to make up for low sales, which is making customers unhappy. Overall the corporate restructuring is unclear. Who will stay? Who will go? Who will make that decision and how? Many questions are unanswered. With the new merger with Houghton Mifflin it is even tougher to say if someone will still have a job.

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      3.0
      Jun 4, 2026
      Director of marketing
      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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