Good place to hone skills, but they don't promote executives from within. - Design Director Cengage Employee Review

3.0
26 Dec 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Intelligent, caring people at midlevels and below. Work with subject matter experts and talented editors who are eager to make a difference with the work they do. Relatively luxurious timelines to get product out the door. Frequent contact with customers - deans, professors, students - is very insightful and helps create better information products.

Cons

Executives change out frequently, and each brings in their solution to save publishing. Very male dominated at the top levels. Most product decisions have moved from the West Coast innovation centers to East Coast business offices.

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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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