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      Horrible environment, low pay, no room for growth, greedy higher management - Anonymous employee Cengage Employee Review

      1.0
      Sep 5, 2012
      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
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      Pros

      Benefits that include dental, summer hours, tuition and travel reimbursement.

      Cons

      Let's just say that in 2012, upper management received a 5 or 6 figure yearly raise and very low level employees received $0.30 more an hour as a raise. And this is all while they were complaining that we had no money to waste on frivolous things. The salary is so low that it's barely a livable salary. There's no room for growth unless you suck up to upper management and compliment them 24/7. Employees are overworked, underpaid, and their work is insulted or ignored. This is a horrible environment to be in, not only for personal and career growth, but also for financial reasons. The HR Department is incompetent and refuses to even listen to employee concerns or discuss salary.

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      3.0
      Jun 4, 2026
      Director of marketing
      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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