Keep your eyes & ears open - Sales Cengage Employee Review

2.0
24 Mar 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

There are some good people at Cengage. Michael Hansen is a good solid leader!

Cons

There are some very talented, hard-working people at Cengage but unfortunately, there are more, that are not hard-working and spend most of their time CYA. Too much gossip as well. Micheal is a Good leader but he has brought on a weak team.

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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
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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