It has served it's purpose - Anonymous employee Cengage Employee Review

3.0
14 Dec 2011
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

They have been flexible when something comes up. It started as a positive experience, but with a 1 time a year bonus schedule, it's not something you can depend on. The base salary is not competitive.

Cons

Low pay and not much room for advancement unless you are in the 'in crowd".

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3.0
4 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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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