Cengage Custom Project Manager reviews

2.0

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Michael Hansen

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2.0
Aug 24, 2020

Lots of layoffs

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Pros

The people are great. The work-life balance is good.

Cons

Lots of layoffs within the company

4.0
Aug 31, 2018

Great Place

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Pros

Flexible, nice workplace, good advancement opportunities

Cons

Through purchase re-orgs made job security always on the mind.

2.0
Oct 26, 2014

Needs improvement

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Pros

Interesting work. Most people are friendly. CEO seems approachable and willing to listen to all employees.

Cons

The 1 or 2 percent merit increases for a rating of exceeds or far exceeds is a joke. What incentivizes us to work hard when we're not rewarded. Also your HR department favors managers over regular employees. Recent re-org in custom made employees have to reapply and interview for new role, and not allowed to keep senior status. The explanation for this was that we are moving into a new role. However managers who also moved into new role did not have to reapply/interview and were allowed to keep senior status. We verbally accepted the job offers, but have yet to receive a formal offer letter or any information about salary. It's been three weeks.

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Cengage Response
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Thanks for your comment and the chance to clarify the process for this job shift. We never assume that “managers don’t have to interview for new jobs but employees do.” When business leaders decide a change in direction is needed for a particular role or area of the organization, we conduct a thorough review with the business leaders, Human Resources, and our employment counsel. This review looks closely at the current roles in the given team, and what is expected to change between the existing jobs and any newly-created roles. If these past and future jobs are significantly different, employees (regardless of level) interview for any and all open jobs of interest to them. Sometimes employees decide to interview in a different part of the organization – not just for the newly-created roles. To specifically address your comment, the review team determined that the old and new managerial roles were so similar in this case that an interview process would be unnecessary. At Cengage, verbal offers are the norm for internal job changes. We hope that the trust we’ve built with our current employees continues to permit this practice. That said, we’ll talk to our employment counsel about other options. Since it sounds like you’ve received a verbal offer, I hope you will speak to your HR Partner or manager, so we can address your concerns, along with any specifics pertaining to your personal situation. Thanks!

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