OK company to work for if the intent is only to get a job - Anonymous employee Cengage Employee Review

2.0
Jan 14, 2013
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Good Benefits Good work/life balance Overall attitude of the people is positive thus makes it a pleasant place to work for

Cons

Lacks long term planning and vision Invests nothing for the career growth and professional growth of an employee Too much politics and no work with executive management It seems like everyone is pretending to do work to save their job No employee seems motivated on any level

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Cons

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Pros

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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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