A series of missed opportunities - Editorial ELT Cengage Employee Review

3.0
7 Jan 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The chance to work with some fantastic individuals and learn from them. The working environment is quite autonomous so there is no feeling of someone watching over your shoulder, however, this is not always a pro (see cons).

Cons

Employees have to learn systems'on the job' often through trial and error as there is no useful training provided. Employees who show initiative and a strong work ethic are often taken advantage of in that more and more work is passed to them with little thought as to whether it is manageable.

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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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