Great company to work for! They donated $50,000 to the American Red Cross for Hurricane Sandy relief efforts! - Anonymous employee Cengage Employee Review

5.0
Nov 9, 2012
Anonymous employee
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

The opportunity to contribute, the ability to learn and grow. Great mentoring and job shadowing program. The ability to collaborate. Work/Life balance.

Cons

Those that only wish to focus on the negative versus contributing towards the success of the company and being proud of the many benefits the company provides to employees and customers.

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3.0
Jun 4, 2026
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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