Politics! Mediocrity! Job Insecurities| Mass Layoffs - Executive Cengage Employee Review

1.0
8 Apr 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Nothing I have experienced.There are no Pros because politics is there in every book and corner.

Cons

Company is dominated by old mediocre employees who are insecure and to safeguard themselves they use politics as tool. Job security is all time low. Not a company to join. No trainings and No growth .Company is worst and claims themselves as employee Centric. Company MD-India, itself creates divide between employees. Managers spends time using Netflix in office . May layoffs are happing in India and ironically the least productive people who are good at politics are surviving. People who left companies like Pearson and McGrawhill and joined has been laid off. Salary is way less than market standards. Work life balance is poor . One team is not allowed to talk to the other team. Staff is rude. This is typical LALA company with no empathy. Unskilled managers are promoted. Company will not survive long . Pays university librarians to do brokerage. Global leadership actually abuse juniors , abuse means real cuss words

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3.0
4 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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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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