Great work/life balance - Anonymous employee Cengage Employee Review

4.0
Mar 12, 2015
Anonymous employee
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Pros

The people are really enjoyable to work with and I have been very lucky to have supervisors that value work/life balance. The work is rewarding.

Cons

As a contractor keeping a steady flow of work has been challenging. The company recently went through Chapter 11 and that has slowed down contractor work tremendously.

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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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