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      At one time, the best...now not so sure. - Sales Cengage Employee Review

      2.0
      16 Jul 2012
      Sales
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      Very respected in the library and school communities. Products are excellent. A good place to start in this industry, but don;t expect to stay.

      Cons

      If you are female or a minority, do not expect to move up in the company. This is a failing they have always had, probably due to the "good ole boys" mentality that sales management has had for years. Pay is crap, and longevity means nothing, as they would rather "lay-off" seasoned sales people and hire newbies and pay them less. Operates in crises mode, and changing everything around every year does not make customers or employees feel good about things.

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      3.0
      4 Jun 2026
      Director of marketing
      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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