Sales - Cengage - Anonymous employee Cengage Employee Review

3.0
Aug 12, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Good people - very friendly and supportive Good place to start a career Great work/life balance and reasonable hours

Cons

Terrible progression - no opportunity whatsoever to progress within the company. Management had a tendency to give increasingly bullish demands with very little compensation - monetary or otherwise No flexible work arrangements Very low salary compared to others in the same industry The industry is dying and no-one will admit it - sales go down and management become worried and expectations of the staff go up which is unfair

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1.0
Jul 13, 2026
Anonymous employee
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Pros

The individuals below the management level are good people, with some good people at management but C-Suite is horrible.

Cons

C-Suite hides their plans under corporate speak. Cengage was a family owned private company and they sold and ever since then has had, debt, schemes to shuffle and restructure debt while implementing RIFs after RIFs after RIFs...never ending and amazingly has been in increased this last year. From their actions it's outsource as much as you can of company operations and squeeze value from Intellectual Property. Look how many times they've renamed themselves. They had a CTO join for about a month or two until she realized it was a role with no team, no authority and left. The CEO is amazing at spin, you hear "great, great, great" corporate speak as the reality on the ground is "this failed, that failed..what!? they're gone!...what they moved that department offshore!...what!? that department is now a vendor relationship...oh we're not DEI focused because the wind changed". The trend is contraction not expansion, no ground breaking innovation. My jaded view from college on expensive books has only grew since I see how the sausage is made.

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