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
1.0
Feb 16, 2017
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Some really great people. Most of them are now gone.

Cons

Product Managers work for the finance department. No real product development work goes on. Employees have grown so accustomed to layoffs or smart people resigning that they no longer acknowledge the existence of past employees. It is an Orwellian nightmare at its finest. Managers are yes-men/women who retaliate against employees who question the system. Many managers push out great employees by making them miserable so that they quit to avoid layoffs with severance. A prominent leader has recently stepped down and employees are hoping this will change the miserable culture, but by now so much is systemic with legacy cronies still in their position...the outlook for culture improvement is bleak. MindTap is destroying Cengage.

1.0
Jul 15, 2016

Manager, Digital Production

Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Good work from home opportunities

Cons

Deluded, penny-pinching management at a corporate level and mercenary, unsupportive management at a lower level. Anyone with half a brain is being laid off and reorgs are almost once a quarter. No institutional knowledge is retained and no one cares for doing anything but shifting blame, covering their posteriors and tending the bottom line. My direct manager would gaslight me when I brought them concerns, and corporate management has its head so far up its buzzword they wouldn't know good business if it bit them on the bottom.

1.0
Jun 27, 2016

Stay away

Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

More and more it's difficult to come up with any to list.

Cons

Morale is really, really bad. Some of the other reviews mention bully culture and I would completely agree with that. Managers are not supportive and set you up to fail. The work load is unbelievable (and the salary does not compensate for that) and it has only gotten harder now that there have been more recent lay offs. There is no work/life balance, vacation and time off is not encouraged and while approved often the employee is made to feel bad when requesting it. They have no respect for their employees and treat all of us (below the higher management level) and replaceable clones. It is disheartening to work at a place that claims to be so passionate about "the student" but could not care less about their own employees.

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