Challenging role with a STEEP learning curve. - Learning Consultant Cengage Employee Review

3.0
Jan 19, 2015
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

-Flexible schedule -Good people -Benefits, 401k match, company car -You work essentially a "teacher's schedule" so you have Summers and holidays off.

Cons

Quite simply, there is just TOO MUCH for ONE person to do. The learning curve to this job takes a year, and it is tough. Lots of ups and downs. Dealing with rude professors in a thankless job is exhausting. I don't get paid enough to deal with the amount of stress I deal with on a daily basis.

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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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