Good place to work - Content Specialist Cengage Employee Review

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.

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.

It used to be a great place to work. Still a few great people left. They won't be for long.

Private equity ownership has prioritized quarterly savings over sustainable growth. Leadership increasingly relies on consultants who lack a practical understanding of the business, leading to decisions that may improve short-term financial results while undermining long-term competitiveness. The company that was once known for innovation, employee engagement, and customer focus has become increasingly driven by cost-cutting and financial engineering. The decline in employee sentiment is reflected in the company's ratings and the recurring themes found throughout employee feedback over the past several years. Concerns regarding morale, leadership decisions, turnover, and the overall direction of the company appear consistently across many reviews and should not be ignored.