Don't work for Cengage - Marketing Specialist Cengage Employee Review

1.0
23 Oct 2008
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Pros

I worked for Houghton Mifflin College Division, a company that I loved and cared deeply about. We were purchased by Cengage Learning back in June 2008 and quite frankly upper management had no clue how to integrate the two companies. Information was never disseminated properly and it remained unclear -- well beyond the acquisition -- as to what people's job responsibilities included.

Cons

Upper management is clueless and now that the company is so large, it is easy to get lost in the shuffle.

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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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