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      Great place to work but the pay is... - Software Engineering Manager Cengage Employee Review

      4.0
      Dec 2, 2021
      Software engineering manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      Cengage is a great company, all led by a great CEO who has a good pulse on the industry. Depending on the location you'll find pockets of excellence where engineers are empowered to make decisions and produce great outcomes.

      Cons

      There are several layers of bureaucracy that needs to be navigated for simple changes. Albeit, this is common among organizations of this size, it does become apparent when you need several layers of approval to try a new tool or incorporate a new framework.

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      Cengage Response
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      Thank you for taking the time to leave this review. Part of our culture in technology is to empower our employees to challenge thinking and make decisions, and I’m glad to hear that you experienced that. We believe that, to drive change, we must think and work differently, challenge the status quo, speak candidly, and innovate. Regarding compensation, our HR department closely analyzes the market to provide fair compensation and we strive to offer competitive, equitable programs that recognize and reward strong performance. We realize that we always have room for improvement, and have continued investing in aligning compensation, and in employee growth and development, over the past year. There may be layers involved in making some decisions (depending on those decisions) but we always welcome new thinking and ideas. Thank you for your more than 5 years of service, I wish you the best in your next endeavor. Kermit Cook, COO and interim executive leadership for Technology

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      5.0
      Mar 28, 2026
      Content specialist
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      Pros

      Total rewards, time off, great people and culture

      Cons

      Lots of changes and uncertainty at times

      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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