Learning Consultant - Learning Consultant Cengage Employee Review

5.0
Jul 17, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

This company has a way of making you feel important and valued, regardless of your level. The culture is positive and forward-thinking. The workload is balanced most of the time. Your manager does depend on some of this, as is the case with many jobs, but my experience has been stellar from a management perspective. I think the turn the company is taking with CU is bold but genius. I really think they are keeping the best interest of the student at heart, which serves as a guiding light, and ultimately this is why it will be a huge success!

Cons

I was not happy with the way the company dealt with the last reorg in regards to how they treated employees and how they decided where to divide up the remaining business. Being torn from your work then plopped in a new territory with seemingly very little business justification is never a great idea. However, since then, I feel like they took that feedback from employees and strive to improve.

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Cons

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Pros

The individuals below the management level are good people, with some good people at management but C-Suite is horrible.

Cons

C-Suite hides their plans under corporate speak. Cengage was a family owned private company and they sold and ever since then has had, debt, schemes to shuffle and restructure debt while implementing RIFs after RIFs after RIFs...never ending and amazingly has been in increased this last year. From their actions it's outsource as much as you can of company operations and squeeze value from Intellectual Property. Look how many times they've renamed themselves. They had a CTO join for about a month or two until she realized it was a role with no team, no authority and left. The CEO is amazing at spin, you hear "great, great, great" corporate speak as the reality on the ground is "this failed, that failed..what!? they're gone!...what they moved that department offshore!...what!? that department is now a vendor relationship...oh we're not DEI focused because the wind changed". The trend is contraction not expansion, no ground breaking innovation. My jaded view from college on expensive books has only grew since I see how the sausage is made.

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