Not recommended - Anonymous employee Cengage Employee Review

2.0
Oct 18, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The biggest benefit of working for Cengage is the work-life balance. Most employees never work beyond 40 hours per week. You're also given the opportunity to work from home and could be flexible with your hours as long as you were there during core work hours. For the right person, there seem to be lots of opportunities here.

Cons

This company used to be a great place to work. The culture has changed. It's become very corporate. It's not about what you know or how sincere you are about the work, it's about who you know and how much you can bluster through in the beginning. If you aren't savvy politically, you won't get far. No concern for employees. Manager was awful. On top of that, workflow involved a lot of busy work and redundancy from day to day.

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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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