Was going well, but now speeding downhill - Marketing Cengage Employee Review

3.0
7 Dec 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great people, interesting and fulfilling work, ability to connect with many people. Job flexibility is great if you have the right manager. Lots of opportunity for movement within departments or into other areas.

Cons

Some people in lower management positions are not qualified.There are multiple layers of management in some groups, and a shortage of people to actually do the work. Not moving fast enough to deal with a changing market landscape.

Explore other reviews about Cengage

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.

11
See reviews by: Helpful|Rating|Date|All