90 Day Review - Product Assistant Cengage Employee Review

5.0
7 Nov 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- So far, everyone that I've worked with (in my office and others) has been very friendly and pleasant to work with. - I have been assigned work that is fair and challenging given my experience coming into the company. - I have been given to chance to collaborate with several different departments on various projects. - My managers always meet with me to discuss project checkpoints and discuss my outlook within the company. - I have received several opportunities to communicate and work with third parties to create, develop, and manage our products.

Cons

- I haven't experienced any cons at this position.

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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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