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      2.8

      30% would recommend to a friend

      (2,405 total reviews)
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      Michael Hansen

      38% approve of CEO

      23% positive business outlook

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      3.4

      Work/Life balance

      3.2

      Diversity & inclusion

      2.8

      Compensation and benefits

      2.7

      Culture & values

      2.3

      Senior management

      2.3

      Career opportunities

      Cengage has an employee rating of 2.8 out of 5 stars, based on 2,405 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Cengage employee rating is 25% below average for employers within the Media & Communication industry (3.7 stars).

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      2K reviews
      1.0
      Feb 8, 2015

      Poor management and training.

      Product assistant
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      Excellent work-life balance, a real attempt by many across departments to listen to and help employees, a number of chances at promotions, work-from-home opportunities, and floating holidays.

      Cons

      Poor managers, changing/confusing processes, unhelpful HR department, and training.

      2.0
      Dec 20, 2014

      Cengage Doesn't Understand K-12 Publishing

      Senior content developer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      The company offers average compensation. It gives manages a degree of latitude in finding opportunities for professional development for their employees. My colleagues are a great group of smart, creative people who know the industry and their content areas like the back of their hand. The new Chicago office offers a clean, modern space with plenty of conference rooms and great views of the city, as long as you can tolerate the drawbacks of an open floor plan: excessive noise, resistance to personalization, and lack of any semblance of privacy.

      Cons

      Life was so much better before Cengage. The namby-pamby corporate "culture" is numbing, to say the least. During the several years Cengage has owned National Geographic School Publishing, I have worked with only one Cengage-sourced manager (who has since left the company) who was effective and produced tangible outcomes instead of empty promises. Understandably, Cengage is focused on higher ed because that represents approximately 90 percent of its revenue, yet the company's leaders have stubbornly resisted providing for our business needs so that we can continue being fully successful. (So WHY did they buy us? Oh, right, so they could slap the golden rectangle on more of their crappy products.) Furthermore our catalog-committed marketing group is ineffective at collaborating with product development in any meaningful way.

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