Not recommended - Anonymous employee Cengage Employee Review

2.0
18 Oct 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The biggest benefit of working for Cengage is the work-life balance. Most employees never work beyond 40 hours per week. You're also given the opportunity to work from home and could be flexible with your hours as long as you were there during core work hours. For the right person, there seem to be lots of opportunities here.

Cons

This company used to be a great place to work. The culture has changed. It's become very corporate. It's not about what you know or how sincere you are about the work, it's about who you know and how much you can bluster through in the beginning. If you aren't savvy politically, you won't get far. No concern for employees. Manager was awful. On top of that, workflow involved a lot of busy work and redundancy from day to day.

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3.0
4 June 2026
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CEO approval
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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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