Sacrificing employees and product quality in pursuit of IPO - Director of Marketing Cengage Employee Review

3.0
Jun 4, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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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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1.0
Jun 30, 2026
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Pros

The only reason to stay now is flexibility.

Cons

Terrible pay. Insane sales goals. Culture of fear. Incompetent senior leaders. Internal systems that do not work. No marketing support. You are a cog in a soulless dystopian machine.

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