Great people working to make the company more profitable - Associate Development Editor Cengage Employee Review

4.0
Feb 24, 2013
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Pros

The content in history and political science is very strong and diverse. With numerous high-profile authors, the content side of the business popular and effective.

Cons

Digital delivery of content remains a struggle, as it is for many publishers. Since the company is a merger of several large and small companies, it has taken several years to iron out these pieces and standardize operations.

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3.0
Jun 4, 2026
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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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