Quantity over quality - Project Manager Cengage Employee Review

2.0
Dec 6, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Many years ago Cengage was thriving and the products were of great quality. The teams were dedicated, experienced and a pleasure to work with.

Cons

About two years ago, they started cutting corners and replacing experienced employees with young inexperienced help, as well as outsourced low end vendors. The message from above was, "Quantity over quality". After so many years of shipping high quality products, it was extremely disappointing to hear this from management.

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Pros

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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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