Really stressful company - Engineering Cengage Employee Review

2.0
Mar 19, 2019
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

* interesting field...digital book publishing * flexibility at work * good products * interesting business model and industry differentiator

Cons

* so many layers of management with each layer adding absolutely nothing except more stress for employees * leadership and managers just care about the bottom line and can't understand why employees wouldn't want to kill themselves to make investors and leadership more money * no long term vision....architecture and product strategy is a total mess but they don't care because they are just looking for short term sales growth

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Pros

Total rewards, time off, great people and culture

Cons

Lots of changes and uncertainty at times

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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