Bad Leadership and Low Pay - Editor Cengage Employee Review

1.0
Dec 13, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

-Working with some great people -Some interesting products and books -Okay benefits -Good company events

Cons

-Awful leadership who is disconnected with their employees and customers -Very hard to get a promotion, stuck in same role for years, a lot of layoffs -Below standard, barely liveable pay. -At the recent Boston town hall, someone was brave enough to ask the CEO to his face why we receive such poor pay and low raises compared to higher management. Like a true corporate CEO, he said his "figures" told him all our pay was equal and high for the industry.

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Pros

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Cons

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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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