Definitely avoid for junior positions - Junior Administrative Employee Cengage Employee Review

1.0
Aug 28, 2008
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

A good work-life balance--in that you can leave at 5pm. On a personal level, many of the employees are very friendly and fun to chat to. It is a fast-growing company, which is a bit of a double-edged sword; on the one hand, there's plenty to do, but on the other, there aren't enough people to do it. Apart from that, there's not much to recommend it.

Cons

Management will happily mislead junior employees regarding their career prospects, and then fail to respond appropriately to complaints and grievances; pay is very low for junior positions; the company has a high turnover of senior management who don't seem to care much about the concerns of employees, which leads to a lot of people in more junior positions leaving because they are not offered career advancement opportunies and are not recognised for the work they do. Some of the middle managers are absolutely terrible managers (though good at other aspects of their job) and have no clue what the people beneath them do.

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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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