Cengage has moved from a print to digital company but is having trouble supporting that push. - Executive Learning Consultant Cengage Employee Review

3.0
Sep 18, 2016
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Fairly positive culture, competitive salary and benefits for the industry. Overall good people to work with. Pretty good ideas/products to sell.

Cons

Difficulty with tech support and a lot of products breaking recently. Some money woes which has led to smaller budgets etc. Tough to get a salary raise.

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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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