Look Elsewhere - Content Cengage Employee Review

2.0
Nov 11, 2015
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Fortunately there are still a lot of great people hanging on, but that's not going to last too much longer with the way things are going. Okay health insurance and good time-off allowance (if you're not too overworked to use it). Some managers allow flexible schedules. A few departments are treated very well with free lunches, offsite activities, beer, and interesting travel opportunities.

Cons

Salaries in most areas were always very low, and with a decade of minuscule raises they have remained depressingly stagnant. No salary adjustments made for inflation. Company is very management-heavy, and despite frequent reorgs, many bad managers remain (many of whom should have never advanced to their positions in the first place). No room for advancement. As positions close, more and more work gets piled on to remaining employees, who are already underpaid and stretched too thin. With such pathetic compensation, many find it hard to stay motivated when there's no reward. Even small perks that went a long way towards improving morale, like working from home a day a week, were taken away from many without reason. Content work is outsourced overseas and the quality has been adversely affected. Low morale all over.

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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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