Great work environment, high job satisfaction - Learning Design Author Cengage Employee Review

5.0
17 Apr 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Interesting work. Supportive managers and coworkers. No office politics. Great work-life balance with work from home 2 days per week. Free espresso bar every Monday. Free Keurig coffee everyday. Excellent health benefits. Commuter benefits. Beautiful brand new SF office with view of the bay from work station!

Cons

Sometimes have to jump unexpectedly from one project to another. Sometimes have mandatory corporate meetings or events with very little prior notice. Open seating means that at times there is a lot of noise and it can be difficult to concentrate. Expensive and long commute, but company subsidizes half of the cost. Bay area is an expensive place to live.

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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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