Great Place to Work! - Anonymous employee Cengage Employee Review

5.0
Nov 7, 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

1) We have some great Sr. Leadership who have vision, share the vision and execute to meet that vision! 2) Work-Life Balance is encouraged and supported! 3) Great to be a part of a team working to improve the learning experience for our users as well as continue to strive to be industry leaders! 4) Cengage takes care of their people and the community. We have several internal employee events as well as events to help our community. Our most recent being a “dance off” to raise money for the Hurricanes. We’re also doing a Thanksgiving food drive.

Cons

Really do not have any. If you are not adaptive to change, this may not be the place for you as we are continuously changing to improve our processes/efficiencies in order to remain the industry leader.

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Cons

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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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