Lots of good people who are under appreciated - Marketing Specialist Cengage Employee Review

2.0
Jun 10, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Flexible hours, good benefits/vacation package, people are great, lots of opportunity to learn and grow in your position. You will get a lot of work and will build up your resume.

Cons

Most everyone is very underpaid (with the exception of the top 10% of management, who make 4 and 5 times more than the hard working people who have been with the company for many years. Unnecessary travel, not enough support from management, very few options for advancement.

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1.0
Jul 13, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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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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