Cengage reviews

3.0

34% would recommend to a friend

(2,396 total reviews)
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Michael Hansen

43% approve of CEO

27% positive business outlook

Cengage has an employee rating of 3.0 out of 5 stars, based on 2,396 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Cengage employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Mídia e comunicação industry (3.7 stars).

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2K reviews
2.0
Nov 11, 2015

Look Elsewhere

Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Fortunately there are still a lot of great people hanging on, but that's not going to last too much longer with the way things are going. Okay health insurance and good time-off allowance (if you're not too overworked to use it). Some managers allow flexible schedules. A few departments are treated very well with free lunches, offsite activities, beer, and interesting travel opportunities.

Cons

Salaries in most areas were always very low, and with a decade of minuscule raises they have remained depressingly stagnant. No salary adjustments made for inflation. Company is very management-heavy, and despite frequent reorgs, many bad managers remain (many of whom should have never advanced to their positions in the first place). No room for advancement. As positions close, more and more work gets piled on to remaining employees, who are already underpaid and stretched too thin. With such pathetic compensation, many find it hard to stay motivated when there's no reward. Even small perks that went a long way towards improving morale, like working from home a day a week, were taken away from many without reason. Content work is outsourced overseas and the quality has been adversely affected. Low morale all over.

2.0
Jul 19, 2015

Disorganization rules

Anonymous employee
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Smart people, good work environment. The various project teams work hard and pull and produce really great products.

Cons

Constant chaos and poor communication. This company wants to be a software company, but tends to shoot without aiming first. Layoffs and reorgs happen constantly in an attempt to fix problems, but nothing is resolved and team cohesiveness isn't improved.

1.0
Mar 13, 2019
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Benefits, Bonus, and I did like working with my co-workers.

Cons

Stressful work environment that was micro-managed. No room for advancement. Advancement is based on the buddy system not on succcess within the company. This results in highly unqualified people managing the company. There were 4 reorgs in the 6 years I was with the company . I had 6 different managers and 4 different territories -no consistency. Lots of technical issues with MindTap and integration. Not too mention the drama internally was insane! Not a good work environment.

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