Momentum - Anonymous employee Cengage Employee Review

5.0
Nov 4, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Great people. Terrific Leadership. Focused and committed to winning. Transition can be tough, but people who are able to preserver during difficult times will flourish. The cream has and always will rise to the top! Promotions are common. There is no lack of people with great track records at Cengage.

Cons

Challenging industry. There is no silver bullet. We need to believe in the plan and trust the process. Be patient!

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Pros

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Cons

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Jun 4, 2026
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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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