House of Cards - Manager Cengage Employee Review

2.0
30 Mar 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Increasing opportunity throughout my career to collaborate with various teams and to be involved in dynamic projects. Good benefits, amazing co-workers, and flexibility from my management to balance work and family life have been the best.

Cons

Company culture, morale, and working knowledge among the employee base has deteriorated over the last 2 years as teams have been realigned multiple times between the traditional text and digital development . Executives increasingly promote internal consultant-types and utilize external firms, grasping at straws to develop "strategy" and create short-term results without understanding the impact to workflows. Unfortunately, the executives have no regard and don't address the additional band-width needed by IT, accounting, etc., to support "strategic" initiatives and the increasing requirements. In fear for their own jobs, managers won't mention this to upper management and expect their teams to "step-up" and incorporate requirements into their objectives "seamlessly" without additional band-width, compensation, or system support.

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CEO approval
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Pros

Total rewards, time off, great people and culture

Cons

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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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