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      Good to build up experience but impossible to stay - a very frustrating place to work long-term - Content Developer Cengage Employee Review

      2.0
      Feb 13, 2022
      Content developer
      Recommend
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      Pros

      Good place to get experience for early career content professionals The content itself that you work can be very interesting and rewarding Potentiall to learn a lot about non-technical job skills, relationship management, conflict resolution, author management etc.

      Cons

      Rivals the public service for lack of meritocracy and complete non-sensical proceses. Poor remuneration and career progression (although this may have changed) Having to manage up almost all the time Management has limited understanding of how content development works and why it matters, very sales focused Poor support for lower-level staff

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      Thank you for taking the time to leave this review. I am pleased to hear that you feel like you gained valuable experience while working at Cengage and that you found your work to be both interesting and rewarding. Regarding career advancement, employee growth and development is a priority for Cengage Group, and we’ve continued to expand our programs over the past year to invest in this area. We recognize there is still work to be done; we value our employees and their contributions and are continuing to advance our internal mobility efforts. I appreciate your feedback as we continue to improve and wish you the best in your next endeavors. Best, Alexander Broich, President of Cengage Global Business

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      1.0
      Jul 13, 2026
      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
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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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