Cengage reviews

2.8

31% would recommend to a friend

(2,401 total reviews)
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Michael Hansen

38% approve of CEO

24% positive business outlook

Cengage has an employee rating of 2.8 out of 5 stars, based on 2,401 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Cengage employee rating is 25% below average for employers within the Media & Communication industry (3.7 stars).

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2K reviews
2.0
Sep 23, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Good benefits, lots of holidays off and paid, and a wellness week in December.

Cons

Poor communication throughout all levels of the company, micromanagement is rampant. The turn over rate is getting higher and higher. Lots of people have been hired and then fired within three months or less, even when following all guidelines and procedures. Lots of lay offs and firing rounds, none of which make sense or are properly communicated. The workload and expectations keeps increasing without proper pay increase or adjustments to the schedule to account for all of customer service's new responsibilities. They are increasing their use of AI and switching to lots of off shore representatives that are not trained properly.

2.0
Sep 21, 2025

Don't do it

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

It's a paycheck, and the benefits are not bad.

Cons

Terrible place to work. Working with former teachers and librarians, many of them can be quite schoolmarmish. A lot of the people there have only known government work and Cengage, so they are very attached to the company. They seem to expect this kind of enthusiasm from everyone. Constant restructuring and layoffs.

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