Run! Beware lots of drama and reorgs - Account Manager Cengage Employee Review

1.0
13 Mar 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Benefits, Bonus, and I did like working with my co-workers.

Cons

Stressful work environment that was micro-managed. No room for advancement. Advancement is based on the buddy system not on succcess within the company. This results in highly unqualified people managing the company. There were 4 reorgs in the 6 years I was with the company . I had 6 different managers and 4 different territories -no consistency. Lots of technical issues with MindTap and integration. Not too mention the drama internally was insane! Not a good work environment.

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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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