Decent entry level job. I would advise to start job hunting after one year if you want to get paid fairly though. - Inside Sales Consultant Cengage Employee Review

2.0
Oct 28, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

They do a great job of training you to work in publishing. BUT once you are trained you'll need to take your talents elsewhere to earn fair market value.

Cons

Executive team is clueless. They constantly roll out new products before they are ready. They give extremely unrealistic sales goals. And they implement or change policies often just to justify their salaries.

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3.0
Jun 4, 2026
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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