Awesome team non-profit wages - Anonymous employee Cengage Employee Review

3.0
28 Apr 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great people with great motives. Learning atmosphere and coworkers are great resources. Creative, kind, and caring. Overall a good mission. Average + work environment and benefits. Could use improvement though.

Cons

It's a corporation with corporate interests. Good motives, motivated employees, and goals aside when it comes down to it, resources and time go into selling stuff while efforts to improve educational resources becomes a secondary hobby. Then again, it is the nature of the industry. It is a shame considering that the majority of the workforce is willing to work for 20-30% less than their counterparts in other industries simply because they want to improve the way people learn, but their efforts are stunted by the company's need to make a profit.

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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
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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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