Efficient. Cost cutting. Lack of integration within company - Anonymous employee Cengage Employee Review

4.0
Oct 2, 2012
Anonymous employee
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

This company knows how and where to cut costs. They spend time to understand shifts in end user markets and do their best to streamline processes including e-learning to faciliate lower prices. Mulitple levels of personnel are included in their decisions.

Cons

Their intergration, IMS and web based abilities are outsourced and or out of the hands of high degrees of competency. They seem to have recognized this as a weakness and are beginning to turn things around.

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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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