Great company to work for, but questionable workflows and policies - Customer Technical Support Agent Cengage Employee Review

4.0
May 5, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Great place to work for, my management team really cares about the employees. There is a lot of talent in the company and they seem to be improving on the transition into the digital arena.

Cons

Inefficient workflows, unorganized and untrained sales staff that makes things difficult for the people supporting the products. there are a lot of departments/positions that have lack of accountability that makes it more difficult to properly support.

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5.0
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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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