Thankful for the experiences, but would never go back or recommend - Digital Marketing Manager Cengage Employee Review

1.0
25 Apr 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

This could be misconceived as a con, but living through the unstable, volatile and fast-moving marketing environment prepared me to handle anything, so I will always thank Cengage for that. I've taken the project management tenants/agency model learnings and have used it to carve out my niche in my new company.

Cons

The dev/tech side is emerging from a very dark period. It will be interesting to see how that ebbs throughout the company. Marketing leadership needs to get their heads on straight and take a good, long look at why they are losing people (and people with tenure). Kudos to the managers that acknowledge a departure and thank them for their contributions publicly as opposed to the all so common "un-personing".

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Pros

Total rewards, time off, great people and culture

Cons

Lots of changes and uncertainty at times

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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