Pros
Many of the people working at conductor are very smart, friendly, and a pleasure to work with. Most people make themselves available to answer any questions you may have, about how the product works, or technology in general.
Cons
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.