Not in Asia - Anonymous employee Cengage Employee Review

1.0
9 Mar 2021
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Good perks, good global direction and leadership

Cons

In ASIA HE you need to find favor with management. No matter how talented or hard-working you are. No transparency and you need to be in someone's good shoes to survive. Even if you have good ideas that is beneficial for the company, it will not taken into consideration and if you are not Chinese survival rate is ZERO. Management will find ways to get you out from the organization and encourages gossips and never do proper investigations based on facts. So if you are different race and you are fighter to do right things think before you enter. Otherwise you will be labelled as someone who has attitude problem.

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3.0
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Pros

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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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