A good learning experience with a company that's struggling to reinvent itself. - Content Development Cengage Employee Review

3.0
Jun 19, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Flexible hours, good benefits and perks (work from home policies), friendly co-workers, and a modern office space. Provides ample opportunity to learn and grow skills in the realms of project management, software development, and online publishing.

Cons

The company is struggling to reinvent itself from a print publishing company to a online learning company. In the past five years there have been numerous reorganizations, leading to many lay-offs and policy changes. It's an unstable environment and it's hard to know your role much of the time. This isn't a place to stake your claim anymore, but more of a workplace to put in a year or two for experience before moving on. Low salaries for high qualifications also make it difficult to attract and retain employees, so resource constraints are a constant problem.

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Pros

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Cons

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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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