Is Cengage a good company to work for?

Cengage has an overall rating of 2.9 out of 5, based on over 2,603 reviews left anonymously by employees. This rating has decreased by 15% over the last 12 months. 31% of employees would recommend working at Cengage to a friend and 24% have a positive outlook for the business. The best reviews about Cengage have been left by employees working as Senior Learning Consultant , Digital Success Specialist and Customer Success Manager .

Does Cengage pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Cengage employees rate their compensation and benefits as 2.8 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Cengage. This rating has decreased by 10% over the last 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at Cengage?

31% of Cengage employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Cengage 3.4 out of 5 for work life balance, 2.8 for culture and values and 2.4 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Cengage?

Learning Consultant (77) , Account Executive (62) , Sales Representative (56) , Manager (42) , Product Manager (36) , Project Manager (30) , Sales Consultant (30) , Sales (29) , Product Assistant (28) , Customer Service Representative (26) , Director (23) , Software Engineer (23) , Content Developer (19) , Account Manager (18) , Marketing (18)

What are the pros of working at Cengage according to real employee reviews?

"There are some great people at Cengage and the open work environment is collaborative and fast paced." ((in 316 reviews)); "Good benefits and easy onboarding" ((in 210 reviews)); "Work life balance is great" ((in 118 reviews)); "Colleagues are great and genuinely care." ((in 85 reviews)); "Great team to work with." ((in 61 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Cengage according to real employee reviews?

"poor management of employees" ((in 114 reviews)); "Increasingly low pay for sales..little chance for advancement unless you are part of the "in crowd"" ((in 113 reviews)); "Unfortunately salary is low and needs improvement" ((in 70 reviews)); "Constant layoffs every two years and irrespective of how much significance you are to the team you might be laid off" ((in 70 reviews)); "Upper management is always reorganizing." ((in 69 reviews))

What are employees saying about Cengage layoffs in 2026?

Explore Glassdoor’s employee reviews to understand what current and former employees are saying about Cengage layoffs and their outlook for job security at Cengage in 2026.

What are the top reviewed Cengage locations?

Boston , Farmington Hills , Independence , Mason , San Francisco , Clifton Park , Cincinnati , Temecula , Raleigh , Chicago , New York , Belmont , Detroit , Los Angeles , Dallas , Albany , Madison , Florence , Washington , Houston , Atlanta , Richmond , Charlotte , San Diego , Louisville , Nashville , Seattle , Orlando , Remote , Birmingham

Cengage reviews

2.9

31% would recommend to a friend

(2,405 total reviews)

Michael Hansen

39% approve of CEO

24% positive business outlook

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Cengage has an employee rating of 2.9 out of 5 stars, based on 2,405 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Cengage employee rating is 22% below average for employers within the Media & Communication industry (3.7 stars).

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2K reviews

2.0

May 16, 2025

Run by sociopaths

Education consultant

Recommend

CEO approval

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Pros

Good benefits and work life balance

Cons

The company is owned by a hedge fund. Any sale you get or thing you do is being taken advantage of by 10 different layers of sociopaths. They pretend to care about education but they do absolutely no innovation. Simply using the same old text books that are overpriced and finding different ways to manipulate the text books to fool admin that are too busy to busy to know what’s truly good for their students and simply suck $$$ out of them. If you care about students lives go somewhere else as this is a complete facade.

1.0

May 14, 2025

Constant worry about loss of job

Anonymous employee

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

co workers are very friendly

Cons

Nothing else. It was filled with lies, worry and no sense of security. Just follow profit and have no concern for the employees

2.0

May 9, 2025

Squeezed by management consultants until it breaks

User experience designer

Recommend

CEO approval

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My business unit had good work life balance, enjoyable coworkers and a salary well matched with the amount of work I was asked to do.

Cons

The last several years, beginning with a $500m investment from Apollo Capital, have been layoff after layoff. I've seen a role offshored to a vendor that churned through 3 contractors in 9 months. I've seen the institutional knowledge of entire functional groups destroyed without regard to it's value. I've seen people, including myself, laid off by executives who never bothered to ask what we did or why it was important.

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