If you like agile development, you'll probably like this - Software Developer Cengage Employee Review

3.0
Aug 15, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

Committed to agile development practices, with reasonably good middle management. It is a good place to learn and grow as a developer, and there is a very good work/life balance for most teams.

Cons

Some teams have struggled and work 50-60 hour weeks for an extended period. Project management (known here as "delivery leads") are still struggling. Note that this is not the norm. Gale is in the process of being folded into the parent organization, and the early vibe is that it is going to get a lot more "corporate". The senior management culture was so-so on transparency and tolerance, and it appears to be getting worse.

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3.0
Jun 4, 2026
Recommend
Business Outlook

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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