Good place to work and break into the education technology space - Business Analyst Cengage Employee Review

5.0
6 Feb 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

There is a path for everyone! If you are an Instructional Designer, Business Analyst, Project Manager, Software Developer/Architect, etc; there is a place for you to be and grow in the organization. Even with the recent financial situation, the firm has a positive long-term outlook.

Cons

Being in a remote/virtual role is hard to interact with casual conversations. Be prepared to loose the few minutes before/after meetings for additional clarification. You will need to schedule time to talk to stakeholders or move the conversations to additional calls or online chat.

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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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