Cengage reviews

2.8

29% would recommend to a friend

(526 total reviews)
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Michael Hansen

36% approve of CEO

23% positive business outlook

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1.0
Jul 15, 2026
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Pros

- Fully remote - Excellent work/life balance - Warm and professional culture

Cons

- Zero job security. Even when you consistently overperform on sales goals and maintain flawless standing with the company's conduct, they will have reoccurring "organizational restructures" that cost people their jobs to keep investors happy. - Pay plan is unrewarding. The only way to make decent money is to drastically overperform. The effort you put forth to make 120k here will get you 150-200k elsewhere if you're truly good at sales. - Bonus structure is unfair and unreliable. There are several factors you have no control over that can prevent you from being paid at all, like poor revenue reporting, or certain products no longer being offered. You cannot control these things, yet they will impact your revenue and put your bonus at risk. - Lack of transparency and honesty. Leadership will say one thing, but their true motives are never apparent until changes start happening that don't align with what was communicated. This happens consistently and makes it impossible to trust them.

2.0
Jul 13, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Very smart and pleasant colleagues, fully remote, decent benefits and advancement opportunities.

Cons

The culture here has degraded year over year for the past 5 years. Decisions by leadership to meet private equity expectations and improve IPO valuation have turned the company into a husk of its former self. Expectations have gotten much higher while pay and resources have been reduced, and folks are burning out left and right trying to keep up with unclear demands.

2.0
Jul 8, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Great working with with educaiton institutions but they don't have any money to spend so you get hassled a lot.

Cons

The goals are too high so you don't meet them to make your bonus. Systems and job supports are poor. There has recently been a ton of turn over.

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