Conductor reviews

After the WeWork debacle, there was a huge round of layoffs right before Christmas. Loud open office plan, very “college fratty” dominated culture. Every time the sales team achieved anything, a loud gong was whacked and everyone stood up and clapped like some kind of weird cult. Lots of micromanagement going on. Inexperienced Senior directors with poor management skills throwing around buzzwords. Extremely gossipy. Everyone had something bad to say behind the backs of everyone. I can only imagine what was said about me. The product itself (searchlight) is really confusing and IMO overpriced.

Management is more than willing to run engineers into the ground by requiring late nights most of the week and required weekends. Honest feedback is dismissed and discouraged. Management becomes upset when they hear anything less than positive then blame the messenger rather than focusing on the problems surfaced. Hard work is rarely recognized, and managements solution to virtually any problem is to put more hours in, rather than think critically in the planning phases. Product road map is not organized or communicated, making forward progress with development chaotic and disjointed. The benefits have been getting drained pretty significantly, the medical insurance was switched early 2014 and it felt like a pay cut. There's a big divergence between Tech and Sales/Marketing. Sales/Marketing seems to look down on tech and openly badmouths tech departments. There seems to be little communication, cooperation, or trust between the leaders of these departments.