Below market pay, constant reorgs, and no upward mobility - Marketing Cengage Employee Review

2.0
31 Mar 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Friendly co-workers - Remote

Cons

- Pay is way under market rate, and raises are 1% -2% per year - Reorgs putting more work on everyone’s plate from “redundant” role reductions, with no title changes or pay increases - Expensive health insurance plans with poor coverage

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3.0
4 June 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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