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      Excellent workforce, floundering senior management - Anonymous employee Cengage Employee Review

      3.0
      Sep 21, 2011
      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
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      Pros

      Gale has one of the very best workforces around. Intelligent, passionate, engaged employees who believe in the company's mission (when the mission holds still for a few minutes). People work hard and management up to the middle management area are generally tuned into their employees and supportive. Great co-workers.

      Cons

      Senior management is lost. They don't want to face the reality of the information/publishing business, so keep getting caught up in the latest "cool" management trend instead of working on the real issues. The amount of time wasted on new processes (to create the same old products that don't break the mold) is unconscionable. The company's philosophy (like so many floundering companies'): When in doubt, reorg. Shameful.

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      3.0
      Jun 4, 2026
      Director of marketing
      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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