Good place to learn by doing - Anonymous employee Cengage Employee Review

2.0
Oct 2, 2012
Anonymous employee
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Good for a first job but then you'll probably need to move on if you're ambitious as little prospect of getting genuine management experience

Cons

Minimal management interest in what you do day to day (yes, that may also be a pro but ...) High staff turnover (whole company not just regionally) and lack of clear direction from the top

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3.0
Jun 4, 2026
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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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