This company is headed for bankruptcy...do not kid yourself - Account Manager Cengage Employee Review

1.0
16 May 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

It used to be the people and the support of the former management

Cons

Close to 300 talented, hard working and loyal employees in sales, sales management and editorial, were laid off within the last year alone. (Interestingly enough, one of the persons in the video below was also laid off.) Influx of executives hired from Pearson who are bringing in their teams/recruits. Company trying to turn into a mini-Pearson. Sorry, but it's too little too late.

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5.0
28 Mar 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Total rewards, time off, great people and culture

Cons

Lots of changes and uncertainty at times

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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