Can you say bankruptcy? Big hurdles to overcome ..... - Anonymous employee Cengage Employee Review

2.0
2 Oct 2013
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Was a great company but the industry to changing and Cengage has not be able to keep up. There were a lot of great people that worked there and the culture was great. I had the opportunity to interact with people throughout the organization.

Cons

Inability to make necessary investments to compete. Reorganization after reorganization. Jobs are being eliminated and people are asked to do too much. Customers losing faith in the organization and their ability to deliver quality products as well as support what they are selling.

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3.0
4 Jun 2026
Recommend
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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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