Poorly resourced teams lead by ignorant senior management - Development and Production Cengage Employee Review

1.0
Feb 8, 2023
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Flexible work arrangements, generally really good people at the lower and middle levels

Cons

Teams working on product development are undervalued and under resourced. Senior management has very little idea of the work that goes into development and doesn't seem to care. There's no importance put on staff retention and when people leave, either management hire too quickly and hire the wrong people, or more likely, they don't replace the role and expect other people to take on the extra workload. Salaries are insultingly low and there's no salary transparency.

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5.0
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Pros

Total rewards, time off, great people and culture

Cons

Lots of changes and uncertainty at times

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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