Stay away - Product Manager Cengage Employee Review

1.0
May 29, 2016
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

There are some great people at the low-mid level. Be weary of higher ups and Human Resources. Some opportunities to work from home. Honestly, there aren't many pros...

Cons

Management has no idea what they're doing. Human Resources plays favorites and engages in deplorable behavior. There are many other better publishers in Boston -- go to one of them!

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3.0
Jun 4, 2026
Recommend
Business Outlook

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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