Don't do it - Manager Cengage Employee Review

2.0
Sep 21, 2025
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

It's a paycheck, and the benefits are not bad.

Cons

Terrible place to work. Working with former teachers and librarians, many of them can be quite schoolmarmish. A lot of the people there have only known government work and Cengage, so they are very attached to the company. They seem to expect this kind of enthusiasm from everyone. Constant restructuring and layoffs.

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3.0
Jun 4, 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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