Company - getting back on track with organizational changes and addressing customers needs - Editor Cengage Employee Review

3.0
27 Apr 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good mission, good product, great future products in the works. Education market is ripe for good ideas. Those who are close to the customer and know teachers, professors and students needs will be able to innovate. Engineers, bankers and private equity can not address market needs.

Cons

Constant staffing cuts remain disruptive to everyday workings. Key question will be how quickly good technology products can be launched and gain market traction vs acceptable bottom line to board.

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3.0
4 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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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