Great for recent grads, but little room for advancement - Associate Content Developer Cengage Employee Review

3.0
14 Oct 2015
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Pros

I love the people I work with at Cengage. My team's culture is warm, welcoming and encouraging. Each coworker strikes the perfect balance between personal and professional. They are the reason I come in to work every day.

Cons

I started at Cengage right out of college. I moved from an assistant position to a content developer position within a year, but now I don't see opportunities for advancement for at least another few years. If the content developer salary was competitive, I would be less concerned about this, but Cengage's editorial salaries are ridiculously low. As Boston's cost of living rises each year, my coworkers and I find it hard to make ends meet. What makes this even more difficult is the fact that programmers and other tech-related employees make twice as much as editorial employees.

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5.0
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Pros

Total rewards, time off, great people and culture

Cons

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3.0
4 Jun 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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