Cengage reviews

2.8

30% would recommend to a friend

(2,407 total reviews)
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Michael Hansen

38% approve of CEO

23% positive business outlook

Cengage has an employee rating of 2.8 out of 5 stars, based on 2,407 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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2.0
May 15, 2015

All over the place

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Pros

Decent pay. Decent benefits. Some management seems okay.

Cons

Management all over the place. Make knee-jerk reactions. It's truly an every man for himself environment. Culture of secrecy and cut-throat survival of the fittest. Employees not allowed to ask questions. Paranoid management.

2.0
May 14, 2015

Unstable

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Some excellent managers and dedicated, hard-working talent throughout.

Cons

The hatched falls frequently. Lack of job security, confidence.

1.0
May 8, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Time off is good.

Cons

Awful place to work. Good Training is pretty much non existent. In the Call Center there are different Departments for K-12 Schools, Higher Ed, and Cengage Brain, but you are only trained in your department yet if you get another departments call, you have to own that call,even though you do not have access to the same data bases that group has. They call it 'White Glove" service which is crap, because how is that great customer service to take a call for a department you know nothing about. The worst part of the job is that you live in fear everyday of transferring a call to the wrong department by mistake and that department tells on you, they fire you. If you do not believe me ask anyone who works in the Kentucky call center and this will be confirmed. We are very under paid, and you do the job of many departments. Raises are horrible. I have received a $.25 cent raise and I have been here for over two years, and I got the maximum raise because my number s were great. Upper Management is a joke, They are mean and very condescending. You should read some of the emails they send to us. They are almost threatening. This company could care less about their employees.

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