Condé Nast reviews

3.1

40% would recommend to a friend

(1,890 total reviews)
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Roger Lynch

36% approve of CEO

27% positive business outlook

Condé Nast has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 1,890 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Condé Nast employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Media & Communication industry (3.7 stars).

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5.0
Dec 28, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

It's the largest, most relevant company of its kind. Glamour, specifically, is a very sane place to work. The women are competent and friendly and for the most part, I really love the work that I do. It's nice to be able to have a creative job and still feel the safety nets of a big company. We have great benefits and a pension plan and lots of things that other people in creative fields don't have. The company can have a reputation as being a tough place to work. It's true that things like look and style can feel like they matter at Conde Nast, but that doesn't actually bother me. We work at fashion magazines! If we were rocket scientists, we'd have a difference set of criteria. When I was younger these attitudes, along with the cut throat nature of the business, could bother me, but now I think it's thickened my skin and made me a better employee.

Cons

Most of the big magazines are within the company, so I do feel like you never really get to "start over" The upside to that is that you can move magazines without moving retirement plans, etc., but it also means that if you feel like you have a dud experience at one magazine you worry about HR having bad feelings about you forever. I am also a bit worried about the industry in general, and think it's important for anyone working in magazines right now to have some opinions about what they might do if they lost their job. Also, the access to mentorship is really on a case-by-base basis. If you are lucky enough to have good top editors who like you and want to bring you along, you're golden, but the company isn't going to make an effort to do that for you. You really have to make those kinds of opportunities for yourself. If you don't have someone advocating for you, the bottom rungs of the totem pole can be very lonely, intimidating places.

5.0
Dec 4, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

They are a special company. They are privately owned, and this aspect provides many benefits. There are a lot of career opportunities. If you are ready and good enough to move up another step in the publishing world, they could move you to a different magazine in order to continue the challange. When my coworker was ready to becoma an Associate Publisher, they moved her from Vanity Fair to Vogue. She is so happy in her new position.

Cons

It had a very cold, bitter atmosphere. My supervisors seemed misserable. One girl would always be crying or having a nervous breakdown. But on the other hand, there were assistants that could handle themselves... Although they weren't exactly happy either.

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