Terrible Middle Management and Technology within their products - Anonymous employee Cengage Employee Review

2.0
Mar 16, 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The only pro - Work-life balance in the Raleigh office

Cons

Middle Management has little experience in managing and doesn't respect their employees wishes and future. I worked there for 10 months, saw multiple products and their code bases are aging / dying without a foreseeable good resolution in the near future. Look at LinkedIn and see the number of folks that stay for short periods of time and then leave, that says it all without words. My two week notice was not respected as without conversation or knowledge 4 days in, I was told the day of that that was my last day and I wouldn't be paid for the remainder of my notice. They claim to be a React and Java shop, two products I saw use React and the rest are a mixture of 10 years worth of JS.

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3.0
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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