Poor culture, bullying, sinking ship - Editor Cengage Employee Review

1.0
11 Nov 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Some nice people, work/life balance is good

Cons

Aspects of a bullying culture that were met with denial when called out. People promoted to management with no training or consideration of their people skills, resulting in communication that was patronising and belittling. Everything is done by commitee, no responsibility or chance to develop given. A lot of people bitterly clinging on to their jobs on the Titanic.

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3.0
4 Jun 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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