Run by sociopaths - Education Consultant Cengage Employee Review

2.0
16 May 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Good benefits and work life balance

Cons

The company is owned by a hedge fund. Any sale you get or thing you do is being taken advantage of by 10 different layers of sociopaths. They pretend to care about education but they do absolutely no innovation. Simply using the same old text books that are overpriced and finding different ways to manipulate the text books to fool admin that are too busy to busy to know what’s truly good for their students and simply suck $$$ out of them. If you care about students lives go somewhere else as this is a complete facade.

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Pros

Total rewards, time off, great people and culture

Cons

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3.0
4 June 2026
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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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