Learning Consultant - Learning Consultant Cengage Employee Review

1.0
Jun 20, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

Very easy job. My manager never checks in with me and I can do as I want every day often sleeping very late in the morning. Also, summers are slow and you can basically take off for 3 months like a teacher during summers so that is a plus. You also can take off the month of December just like teachers so that is another plus.

Cons

No job security because there are constant layoffs. Cengage is also out of touch with what customers want and is losing ground to competitors rapidly.

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5.0
Mar 1, 2026
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Pros

Strong CEO leadership and mission driven company, leveraging innovation to anticipate and address needs in education.

Cons

Moving fast, so change is a real part of the day to day operations.

3.0
Jun 4, 2026
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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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