A Great Place to Learn & Leave - Anonymous employee Cengage Employee Review

2.0
Feb 1, 2024
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The people working in the trenches are good, passionate people.

Cons

No leadership support and very little opportunity for advancement. Overall, there is not a strong culture simply based on the fact that there is an extremely high turnover rate. When everyone is constantly afraid of losing their jobs it's almost impossible to trust this company as a long-term career investment. My advice: get what you need and leave.

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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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