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      disappointing - Anonymous employee Cengage Employee Review

      2.0
      Jan 27, 2016
      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      - Many people are smart, kind, and motivated - Work-life balance is good - working 45+ hours makes you a rockstar - The mission is meaningful

      Cons

      - The old boys network leads to bad management decisions and sexism - A lot of work is done because of who is friends, not the business value of the work. In particular, the SOA project has wasted a lot of time and caused many of the highest performing people to quit in frustration. Though it continues to be behind schedule and disorganized, its leader is rewarded. - Business units compete for revenue and the same tech resources, leading to competition and politics instead of collaboration - Raises are laughably small and based on company performance instead of individual performance

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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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