Good and Bad but overall a Great Place to work - Learning Consultant Cengage Employee Review

4.0
Sep 27, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great products make sales easy. The people and culture is what makes it special.

Cons

I'll go easy on you Cengage because you were good to me but get your crap together. I know you're trying but maybe that's the problem, you're trying too hard....? If you want to be a tech company, you need to do better, everything is very confusing for everybody and especially teachers since they already have many different software they use. Also, don't let tech support fall on your sales reps.

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3.0
Jun 4, 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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