Good to be here. - Anonymous employee Cengage Employee Review

4.0
Oct 10, 2012
Anonymous employee
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

With a new CEO and lots of positive initiatives underway, Cengage is poised for great things. New guy Michael Hanson has hit the ground running and we're hopeful that CL will again become the innovative game changer it should be. Smart, friendly people who want to make a difference -- that's what makes this company great. But if you're looking for a place to "hide" and not be challenged, this isn't the place for you. . . change is the only constant around here. Shift happens!

Cons

At times there's not alignment across all groups, which can make our jobs tougher.

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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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