The greed is out of control - Anonymous employee Cengage Employee Review

2.0
8 May 2025
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

the actual work is enjoyable coworkers work at home option

Cons

This company has a troubling pattern of ongoing layoffs. Leadership often announces that the cuts are over, only to initiate another round the following month. Or they say that layoffs are over and then immediately hire a new company to cut costs. While many roles have been shifted to India, a significant amount of the work remains in the U.S., largely because there's hesitation to rely on less experienced offshore teams. It's hard to understand Cengage's purpose beyond serving as a revenue engine for private equity interests. The constant instability raises serious questions about its long-term vision and integrity.

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Total rewards, time off, great people and culture

Cons

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3.0
4 Jun 2026
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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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