The Titanic - Anonymous employee Cengage Employee Review

1.0
Jun 28, 2013
Anonymous employee
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Flex time, flex time, flex time

Cons

Change in health insurance provider to save money was troubling Management contradicts itself at each turn. No silos, yes funnel marketing, no wait we have another reorg coming - stop everything! The new CEO is using this as his pet project. Sadly many good people have been lost in the process and the smart ones still left will leave for greener pastures.

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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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