Top Knotch - Learning Consultant Cengage Employee Review

5.0
24 Sept 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

If you read through these reviews you'll find many are using the same language, and that's due to Cengage using their marketing teams to frequently send glowing reviews in a cynical attempt to manipulate perceptions. Most people I know are desperately looking to get out because the culture of blame and scapegoating is taking root. The remaining managers mostly are here due to attrition and they're quite adept at placing blame on others and scapegoating others to protect themselves. I would be very cautious in accepting any position from this organization or publishing in general.

Cons

Someone from cengage poses as a CEO and will offer a rebuttal in the reviews whenever anyone is close to telling the truth or giving real life thoughtful criticism. T

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Pros

Total rewards, time off, great people and culture

Cons

Lots of changes and uncertainty at times

3.0
4 Jun 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Company has some interesting approaches to the market and in the past they seemed value employees. There are some good employees there and there was, in the past, visionary leadership, but the people with the vision and leadership skills left the company a few years ago.

Cons

The company actively de-values employees. They had a project they called "Project Horizon" where they told all employees they needed to cut costs, so the company was going to have multiple layoffs over 3-5 years - but nobody was allowed to know when, where, or why - - just one day large swaths of people would be gone. That hung over everyone's heads - for years, and is indicative of how Cengage values employees - it doesn't. Everything is about trying to secure new funding and prepare for an IPO, so they stopped investing significantly in the products about 3 years ago and that's about when they stopped acting like they cared about employee wellness as well.

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