Excellent company turning things around in the education publishing industry - Sales Manager Cengage Employee Review

5.0
9 Sept 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Engagement, empowerment and a an executive staff focused on where it should be...the student. This company has taken a big chance on focusing on the student instead of the sale or the instructor. Students have realized that they are a consumer and have the ultimate power in any educational company's success. Cengage has recognized this. They are engaging their employees to become a part of the solution which ultimately makes you want to work harder.

Cons

Challenges are the same for all companies in this industry. It is a time of change and transition. There will always be pains when dealing with industry change.

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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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