Great Company, Strong Leadership - Sales Leader Cengage Employee Review

5.0
7 Aug 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Strong leaders, committed to company mission and aligning all teams to company goals.

Cons

Innovation creates a culture that embraces change and asks a lot of their people.

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Cengage Response
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Thank you for taking the time to leave a review. I appreciate your positive remarks about our leadership team and mission-driven focus.    Over the past decade, the needs of learners and educators have evolved significantly. As an organization, we have successfully adapted to these changes and remained a market leader in the sectors we serve. We have experienced three consecutive years of revenue growth, which is a testament to our ability to innovate and meet the evolving needs of our customers.  I completely agree with you that it is critical we continue to evolve and grow, and that we revisit how we measure success. This was a key motivator in the development of our ‘Cengage Group Scorecard’ – providing a metrics driven way for us as an organization to align on our goals and track our progress. This scorecard tracks impact across three pillars: financial excellence, customer impact and employee experience. I believe that this scorecard reflects our culture of transparency and accountability. I appreciate your feedback as we continue to evolve and improve. Thank you for your dedicated service of over 10 years. Best, Michael Hansen, CEO

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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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