A good place to work with great people - Software Developer Cengage Employee Review

4.0
Aug 29, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

I loved my coworkers and the camaraderie we had. I enjoyed going into work most days. I had the opportunity to work on some big initiatives aimed at helping the company grow. It's an exciting time to be in higher education as more courses adopt digital tools. Upper management is approachable and transparent. Schedule flexibility was never an issue.

Cons

Any large organization that is spread across the country (and world) will struggle with focus and collaboration. There is a concerted effort to unify the ways in which customers interact with Cengage, but it's not quite where it needs to be. There are still many walls (both real and virtual) which cause groups to work in silos but some work has been done to break them down.

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1.0
Jul 13, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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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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