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      Dishonest management - Former Full Time Employee Cengage Employee Review

      1.0
      Jul 19, 2025
      Former full time employee
      Recommend
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      The benefits were decent and some of the people were nice.

      Cons

      Constant upheavals in management due to constant layoffs. Current management tries to intimidate employees with performance improvement plans (PIPs) to avoid paying them any severance when their impending layoff is coming. Those who were intimidated and quit lost all PTO days and any severance. Those who withstood the bullying received all their PTO and severance. This abuse of power and lack of respect for talented employees is reprehensible. Grateful to be out of that toxic environment.

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      Cengage Response
      10mo
      Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback and for your more than three years with Cengage Group. We work hard to foster a safe, respectful, and inclusive work environment. We take claims of bullying or intimidation seriously, and I’m truly sorry if you felt unsupported or mistreated during your time here. That is not the experience we want for any of our employees. Please feel free to reach out to me directly to discuss your concerns if you feel comfortable doing so. We are committed to listening, learning, and improving. Thank you again for your candor. Best, Jeri Herman, Chief People Officer

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      3.0
      Jun 4, 2026
      Director of marketing
      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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