No respect for their employees. - Anonymous employee Cengage Employee Review

2.0
Dec 4, 2019
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Some of the best people I have ever worked with are at Cengage. Most people are passionate about the company's mission. Free snacks, free gym, free beer on tap, company wide social events.

Cons

The people in leadership are clueless and lack empathy. I have never been a part of an organization who is so careless and unorganized when it comes to lay offs. You would think they would be experts in it considering all of the cuts they have made in the last year, but unfortunately that was not the case this time. HR is also extremely disorganized and treats people as if they are disposable regardless of how many years they have dedicated to the company.

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1.0
Jul 13, 2026
Anonymous employee
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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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