Good place to work and break into the education technology space - Business Analyst Cengage Employee Review

5.0
Feb 6, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

There is a path for everyone! If you are an Instructional Designer, Business Analyst, Project Manager, Software Developer/Architect, etc; there is a place for you to be and grow in the organization. Even with the recent financial situation, the firm has a positive long-term outlook.

Cons

Being in a remote/virtual role is hard to interact with casual conversations. Be prepared to loose the few minutes before/after meetings for additional clarification. You will need to schedule time to talk to stakeholders or move the conversations to additional calls or online chat.

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Pros

Total rewards, time off, great people and culture

Cons

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1.0
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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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