Manager, Digital Production - Project Manager Cengage Employee Review

1.0
Jul 15, 2016
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.

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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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