How in the world did Cengage get voted best place to work in a 2023 Glassdoor survey? I mean really. Everyone is overworked and underpaid. Loved my boss explaining the 1.2% annual raise. Meanwhile MH is vacationing in an Italian villa.
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It USED to be a nice place to work when Thomson owned it. When Glassdoor first started, I posted a not-great review, while I still worked there, and it got sent around to everyone saying oh, leave a review on Glassdoor--here are a couple that got left. Thank goodness nobody knew it was me! Maybe they did somehow because I got let go in a layoff six months later, which, best thing to happen quite honestly.
I got an exceeds expectations annual review rating one year. Then received a congratulatory email from the then top HR executive at Cengage. Thought that’s a nice thing to do even if it is some boiler plate e-mail that gets sent out automatically. Halfway through the email, there comes a request for me to submit a Glassdoor review. Am I also going to get a request to buy Amway products? Way to go Cengage. Stay classy.
The vast majority of "Best Place to Work" awards are bought and paid for. Companies that struggle to recruit or want to boost their profile will target these awards at the beginning of the year and work with the website or publication that is awarding them to make sure they meet their arbitrary criteria. There's usually a fee involved to become an "Engaged Employer" or something like that. Cengage miraculously won one of these about 10 years ago after receiving embarrassingly low Glassdoor scores at the site's inception. Michael said at a Townhall that he met with Glassdoor's CEO to understand why they received poor scores. Instead of, you know, looking at why people were miserable working there they figured out how to game the system. Ever since then Michael has been a Glassdoor "Top CEO" and Cengage a "Best Place to Work." It's all bought and paid for nonsense that Glassdoor uses to shake down desperate companies like Cengage who in turn gets their employees to sign up for Glassdoor accounts and leave reviews. Glassdoor now has Cengage as a client and a bunch of new users.
The real companies that are the best places to work don't waste their time rigging phony awards because everyone already wants to work there. This is just another joke that no one cares about besides the dead-ender Cengage sycophants I see in my LinkedIn feed bleating that they are "So proud to work for this company!!" The irony is they have no choice but to work there.
A few years back there were voluntary mandatory Glassdoor voting emails sent out that ‘couldn’t be tracked’ but if you didn’t fill them out your manager would know.
From what I remember, it’s an award that is a combination of voting and buying.
Greetings,
Working from the Italian Berghof is necessary to achieve a good work/life balance. In today's connected world, it's important to never log off at 5 PM on a Friday.
EdTech is an exciting industry that requires a blood oath of both loyalties to the Cenforce and to providing students affordable access to quality online learning materials.
Cengage Unlimited has been an unmitigated success and has saved the global community millions of dollars. We now enter Phase 2 of the 1000-Year Plan as we become more inclusive. Positions that used to require college degrees will be offered to marginalized people so that they can flourish and be promoted.
It was the best place to work for me until I went to presidents club where I was pressured to perform in an intimate manner to keep my job. I said no, so they said I won’t be invited back so on the 4th year in a row I made goal, sure enough I was not invited.
When I worked there I truly believed I was helping future leaders of the world. My manager firmly knocked that notion out of my head within a year. Make money at any means, lie, cheat and steal, that is the name of the game. Even while doing that, it doesn't matter because they can decide to give you a bonus or not regardless of performance.
The reviews probably came from the same a55kissers who pucker up in the First Friday Slack channel every week. And a 1.2 raise? LUCKY! Remember MH asked "How do you integrate work and life?" In Italy apparently.