Worse and worse - Anonymous employee Cengage Employee Review

2.0
Jun 13, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

My manager is one of the best I've ever had and I mostly enjoy my job. 401k, vacation, and sick time are good.

Cons

Outsourced half of their I.T. department and executives are so invested in the move, they do not care how it affects the end users or how terribly the contracted partners perform. Health insurance providers has changed several times over the last few years and it gets more expensive and requires more out of pocket every year. During 2 of the last few mas layoffs, the affected people had to train their Indian replacements. If you are open about your feelings in one of these "transparent" town halls, you and your team could be the next group on the chopping block.

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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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