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      There is better out there for you - Anonymous employee Cengage Employee Review

      3.0
      5 May 2023
      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      The people are some of the best I'd ever worked with. Good flexibility and reasonable people.

      Cons

      The industry is declining, they expect a lot of work out of you for little pay. They sell it with the "culture" - which is not wrong - but culture doesn't protect you from frequent layoffs and downsizing to control costs while the market and revenues continue to shrink. My advice to anyone looking at this company is to try to find a healthy company first. Cengage is great, but it can't overcome the mechanisms of the shrinking market and that will always be reflected in pay and job security. It's very stressful and it took me getting away to really see how stressful. Career advancement isn't great and in many cases is blocked by budgets year after year.

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      3y
      Thank you for reviewing your work experience at Cengage Group. I am pleased to hear that you enjoyed your colleagues and that found your work to be flexible. Regarding layoffs, the education industry is one of constant change, yet our strategy of delivering affordable high-quality materials to students remains the same. We periodically evaluate our approaches, and that sometimes results in difficult decisions about colleagues and teams. That said, these decisions are not taken lightly; we value every employee and the contributions they have made. Thank you for your more than 8 years of service, I wish you the best in your next endeavors. Best, Michael Hansen, CEO

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      5.0
      28 Mar 2026
      Content specialist
      Recommend
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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
      Director of marketing
      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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