What a mess they are - Learning Consultant Cengage Employee Review

1.0
Nov 17, 2013
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Good 401(k) match and paid time off.

Cons

Management keeps changing and those that stay are often at the peak of their incompetency. Human Resources fails to do anything with poor performing managers, especially those with borderline HR infractions who drive their reports to 80 hour work weeks with impossible expectations. Prepared to be de-motivated and searching for your self.

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3.0
Jun 4, 2026
Recommend
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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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