It has been an experience is growing tough skin. - Anonymous employee Cengage Employee Review

2.0
May 17, 2012
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

You can learn a lot there and the benefits are better than most big companies I have checked out. Working conditions and the HR department are superb. I have had great bosses, but sadly it seems the better the boss the sooner they get canned.

Cons

How management uses and then discards its middle and upper management employees is beyond description. If you don't mind never knowing when you will be kicked to the curb, go ahead and get a job there and then accept the promotions. I have watched too many valuable bosses be lauded one day and be out the door the next. That's why I am not interested in being promoted. I like what I do, but I don't like my employer.

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Cons

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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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