Dedicated employees in a company unprepared for the future. - Anonymous employee Cengage Employee Review

2.0
May 2, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Family friendly for my spouse and children. Accommodating to recent death in my family. Decent benefits and 401K. Friendly atmosphere at least in my location. Fairly flexible with work/life balance. Accepting and tolerant of a diverse workforce.

Cons

Professional salaries are not competitive; open poaching from Pearson, McGraw, and vendors/contractors. Mid and upper-mid management are often clueless about roles, responsibilities, and workflows. Talent is underutilized. Takes an act of Congress to get simple things done. Not a place where new ideas can take root and grow which will be its undoing. Understaffed for the expectations that are enforced.

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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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