Best Company I have ever worked for - Account Executive, Higher Education (Outside Sales) Cengage Employee Review

5.0
Feb 17, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

#1 Reason is the people. I have great co-workers I can reach out to for anything I need and even though we are spread across the whole country, especially during the pandemic, I feel super supported. The culture is absolutely inclusive, positive (rare for a sales role) and is truthful. Many of us were teachers before and you can definitely tell. This job attracts straight-A students.

Cons

Your first year is extremely challenging because there is so much to learn. You will never be an expert on everything and need to learn to be ok with that. Bonuses are paid out once a year which is hard to budget for. I had to learn to actually schedule time in my day for work/life balance because it is so easy to become a workaholic in this role. Management encourages it but I always felt behind! The workload is cyclical meaning you will work evenings and weekends for a couple of weeks a quarter and then have some time to relax and recharge after the rush is over.

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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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