Co-workers are great, smart, energetic and do great work. The company doesn't seem to notice that anymore. - Anonymous employee Cengage Employee Review

3.0
May 4, 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The people. The work is gratifying in that we help students learn and grow. Most direct managers I've had have been very easy to work with.

Cons

Work-life balance is deteriorating. After being able to work from home some have been forced back to the office where they do not work directly with anyone and have no reason to physically be in the office. The pay is on the very low end of our business and raises and bonuses have been almost non-existent in my time there.

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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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