Declining. Would not recommend - Account Executive Cengage Employee Review

2.0
30 Jan 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Remote for my team though this can vary between different business units. Benefits are good with 401k match and paid holidays.

Cons

Declining since investment from Apollo. For sales are quotas are unrealistic with even direct leadership agreeing. No help from marketing or plans to reach those quotas. Last year they increase quota and decreased our commission so literally told to do more for less. Communication is abhorrent between teams like finances, sales, customer experience etc. ELT doesn't really listen. Just gives you the appearance of listening but nothing is addressed or done. Compensation is not great compared to other organizations. Unrealistic expectations of work that can be done. Only so much room on someone's plate.

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5.0
28 Mar 2026
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Pros

Total rewards, time off, great people and culture

Cons

Lots of changes and uncertainty at times

3.0
4 June 2026
Recommend
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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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