Stratified dinosaur of a company - Project Manager Cengage Employee Review

2.0
23 Jul 2012
Recommend
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Pros

Good work/life balance and telecommuting policies

Cons

Corporate structure is broken up into powerful silos of publishing groups who won't change and a new technology area who don't know how to get them to change, so they just build products the company doesn't need. Very poor advancement prospects The same incompetents get all the projects, despite history of failure and incomplete launches Poor recognition Lower end salaries (publishing industry is low across the board) Lip service payed to opportunities and change, but no actual corporate priority given.

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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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