Would no longer recommend working at Cengage. - Anonymous employee Cengage Employee Review

2.0
Jan 10, 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

By far the greatest pro was the work/life balance. I found it to be a valuable part of the office culture.

Cons

The pay is lower than average and the yearly "merit increases" don't even cover inflation. The publishing industry as a is going through a great time of change and it is a very uncertain time and the mood is very low.

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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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