Used - Editorial Assistant Cengage Employee Review

1.0
13 May 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

They give time off and great working conditions but as a contractor or intern you get 10 an hour and do the same if not more as people around you who are making 30+ and hour. Plus you have to go through the temp company Adecco so you get no paid sick day, no paid holidays, no vacation ..nothing except crabby benefits that you pay for.

Cons

No promotion of contractors or interns from within, no matter how long you are here you still complete with outsiders for job positions. Sometimes they hire contractors but very rarely. Even a simple customer service telemarketer position I was turned down for despite being employed for more than 2 years, never late, rarely sick and doing way more than my job description entailed. I feel used and taken advantage of.

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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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