A surprisingly agile organization for such a large company - Senior Product Manager Cengage Employee Review

5.0
10 Apr 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

I love the power that I have, the freedom that I have, and the fact that I know exactly what is expected of me. My success is purely based on my own performance. I work remotely, and am attached to the Boston office. My manager is super smart, and gives me the support that I need. Her manager is also very smart, helpful and approachable. And that manager's manager is smart, brutal, but that's what we need in that job.

Cons

Large company, but still agile enough. Benefits are good, but quite a high employee contribution for healthcare if you're like me, family of four. A lot of business travel, but all my travel I actually inflict on myself, based on my own business needs, so I can't complain really! Of the 5000 or so employees, I can only think of one person that I really disapprove of as far as being a great link in the chain. Hopefully he'll resign one day, or shape up, and then we'll be at 100%.

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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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