Supportive team atmosphere overshadowed by poor management decisions - Sales Cengage Employee Review

1.0
20 May 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Working with individual contributors to provide world class service and content to customers.

Cons

Gale, owned by Cengage, has now been systematically destroyed by management who know relatively nothing about the market. They hired someone from Microsoft and within 6 months of being hired, completely dismantled a viable business trying to make it an true Ed Tech company. You should have embraced your speciality--It's all about the content!

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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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