Just waiting to be sold to highest bidder - Anonymous employee Cengage Employee Review

2.0
29 Feb 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Good people, decent benefits, pockets of organization have true teamwork.

Cons

CEO and his exec team have slashed and cut budgets far too much...it is impossible to deliver quality products or services (those that have not yet been outsourced) to our customers. These guys are simply waiting for their big payout when they sell the company. CEO is a pretty good actor, though, and has fooled a lot of people who thinks he really gives a damn about education, or employees. Huge ego on that one, for sure. And please don't get me started about the bully who runs the product group. Mismanagement by fear and humiliation tactics have created a revolving door ...we've lost so many talented and bright people who decided they didn't want or need to be bullied by a "senior executive". Shame on Michael for tolerating such inappropriate behavior.

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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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