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      Increasingly profit driven with some great people and ideals - Senior Software Developer Cengage Employee Review

      4.0
      31 Oct 2023
      Senior software developer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      Cengage has values that are excellent and a history of putting them into practice, including respect and doing what's right for employees and customers. Team dynamics are very positive and the product is also worthwhile. I was well motivated by both to do my best work.

      Cons

      Cengage has recently (summer of 2023) committed to an aggressive cost-cutting campaign in order to improve its profit margin from excellent to amazing. This focus on profit margin has begun to undermine the company's social values.

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      Thank you for leaving a review. The goal of recent changes within our business is to improve efficiency by implementing simpler, more standardized, and efficient methods to serve our customers. This transformation is necessary to sustain and accelerate growth in an increasingly competitive and rapidly evolving education and workforce market. Although we have had to make difficult decisions, we truly value our employees and their contributions. I believe that this evolution in the way we work will eliminate many of the complexities and challenges our business faces, and ultimately strengthen our business overall. Best, Michael Hansen, CEO

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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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