Pros
Middle management at Conductor is top tier - managers provide helpful feedback and work to make sure lower-level employees are learning, growing and engaged. Unfortunately, that growth will be in spirit only because the promotion process at Conductor is designed to take months and raises are usually minimal. You will be expected to perform the work of a promotion (the work of someone above your pay grade, or usually the work of 3 people above your pay grade) for 6 months to a year before you will become eligible for promotion. Conductor can be a fun place to work - the people here are some of the best and most driven you'll ever work with - but you should negotiate like hell on your offer if you want to join. You will not get a promotion or raise until WELL after you've earned them, especially if you’re a woman or a POC.
Cons
Most of the company's problems come down to a dysfunctional C-suite and extreme org-wide micromanagement. C-level executives constantly involve themselves in issues well below their pay grades, and those executives have no idea how these low-level projects are supposed to work. As a result, most initiatives are poorly thought out and get rushed, stalled, and changed after rollout constantly and everyone at the company ends up confused about what's going on. Executives make thoughtless remarks at all-company meetings and demand changes to finished work on a daily basis, which can both be highly demotivating. Executives also place blame for any and all performance issues and resulting layoffs on low-level employees and “the markets” rather than their own strategy. For lower-level employees, pushing back on bad ideas is a waste of time - leaders rarely listen to feedback from employees. The CEO is a very nice person, but much of this messy culture comes from him as a leader. Company-wide decisions are made based on his personal working preferences rather than data, subject matter expertise or the needs/wants of employees. Senior leaders show up late or not at all to meetings, which leads to everyone working under them doing the same. Managers often visibly struggle to present executive decisions as good ideas to their teams.