Conductor reviews

4.3

85% would recommend to a friend

(328 total reviews)
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87% approve of CEO

75% positive business outlook

Conductor has an employee rating of 4.3 out of 5 stars, based on 328 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Conductor employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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328 reviews
2.0
Nov 29, 2016

Don't Believe the Hype

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Smart people. Beer kegs. Market demand for the product. Seemingly approachable CEO. Open office environment. Weekly lunches. Snacks. Bananas. Seltzer.

Cons

Poor intradepartmental communication. High turn over in the engineering department. Many senior engineers left this year. Incomprehensible management structure. Weekly infrastructure fires. Poor retention. Company is not profitable despite market demand. Not a "start up" anymore despite assertions to the contrary. Below market compensation. High stress. Low trust environment. Lackluster benefits.

3.0
Oct 30, 2016

Hires great people. Rarely retains them.

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Fun office environment. Bean bag chairs, kegs, scooters. People often hang out in the office after work. Very casual and personal, even between managers and their teams.

Cons

Lots of baggage. Poor communication between departments. Executive leadership can be indecisive and contradictory. The best people don't stay long.

5.0
Aug 15, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Conductor's a fairly large startup now, but during my time three and a half years there it felt small in the best kinds of ways: The executives were accessible; my coworkers were approachable; the organization was transparent. It's a meritocratic place to work -- good ideas and hard work are executed and rewarded. Most managerial positions are filled through internal promotions.Coworkers tend to be cordial and collaborative. There are vanishingly few divas in the Engineering organization. Those that exist generally temper themselves to the team's ethos or work themselves out of the organization on a short time horizon. Four months out and in a new job I love, I still miss my coworkers at Conductor daily. They were supportive, hard working, and bright, easily the best part of the position. You can learn a lot here if you're willing to pursue it, particularly if you're willing to get $&*# done in a maintainable way.

Cons

Work/life balance is at times difficult at Conductor, although I'm not convinced that was always management's fault (full disclosure: I was a low-level engineering manager for a couple years at Conductor). Like most technology firms, there's a lot to do and not nearly enough engineers to do it. For the most part, deadlines are reasonable, but no one's going to explicitly stop you if you indulge your workaholism and burn yourself out, until you're so far gone it's obvious to everyone. If you work for Conductor, you'll need to practice economy of motion. Conductor struggled with project management and prioritization for most of my time there, but a few key hires and new positions in 2016 dramatically improved the situation by the time I left. Projects felt much more defined and executable in 2016 than at any point before, and that trend looked both healthy and established.

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