Good environment for technology workers - Working In Technology Cengage Employee Review

5.0
6 Feb 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

True team environment, ownership and decision making pushed down to the actual doers, management involved in and open to making the team space a better place to work. Some recent improvement in career paths for technology workers. A lot of respect for our time and efforts.

Cons

High level product and project management approval and strategy is painfully slow, resulting in wasteful context switching and time wasted on non-strategic work while waiting for management to make a decision.

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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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