Good flexibility and people to work with, Out of touch senior management, no HR - Analyst Cengage Employee Review

3.0
Oct 9, 2014
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

I enjoy flexible hours and workload. I earn constant 'exceeds' reviews because I am able to constantly add more work to my purview. Lots of good people at the bottom who have great skills. The CEO seems very genuine, transparent, and forward thinking.

Cons

The senior management seems to not buy into what the CEO is preaching to us. While the CEO tells us to take initiative and make things happen, we are stymied by his direct reports when we actually do that. It's very much still top down, do what we say and we know what we're going around here. Also, HR is not very interactive in benefits and pay. There are no performance based incentives here for anything under director level, and when any annual increases (well under cost of living increases) are given out, it's at the managers discretion. HR should be doing this, not managers who can favor friends or punish employees who don't agree with them on something.

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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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