It's a great place to work when you aren't being terminated. - Project Manager Cengage Employee Review

2.0
16 Apr 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

I've worked here for a while now and have very few complaints. Pay seems to be competitive. Benefits are decent. Environment is pretty laid back but all the work still gets done.

Cons

Frequent reorganizations have pushed many people out of jobs. This seems to happen a few times a year. After every one we are assured that the reorg is complete and we are all safe, then 5 months later there's another reorg and seemingly great employees who have been here for many years are let go with no justification other than 'the higher ups terminated your position.'

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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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