Swept Under The Rug || Toxic SaaS Startup - Sales Representative Conductor Employee Review

1.0
Nov 14, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

- Some pretty great people across teams - SEO is an emerging/hot tech space - good learning experience overall - Great NYC office

Cons

- Incredibly Toxic at times - If you aren't a manager or higher, you have zero input on anything - In sales specifically, you see SDRs get hired and fired within the span of 3 months, while still learning about the product + SEO sector - Constant Layoffs - Outrageous Favoritism for specific employees (some can do no wrong, ever) - You are easily replaceable and your manager can and will remind you of that every day. - Do or Die sales mentality, regardless of your personal circumstance. A person was fired for taking a 2 week PTO she had put in MONTHS prior. - They will gaslight the sh*t out of you, even if you didn't do anything and sweep any instance of an exec f*cking up under the rug and blame you for spreading gossip

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5.0
May 20, 2026
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Pros

Conductor is a great company with incredible leadership and a product that customers love. The company culture is the best I have ever experienced in my career and employees are truly valued.

Cons

The advent of AI has dramatically changed Conductor's industry.

3.0
Jan 28, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Good experience with the people so far, feel like everyone is generally friendly and it's a small enough company that it's easy to connect with people to learn about their positions. Good experiences so far with managers who are generally warm and friendly. Relatively good work life balance, you work remotely all month of August and you can travel.

Cons

Biggest con personally is the low pay, just among the lowest you can make in a starting position and it takes about 1.5-2 years to scale into a better place as an SDR which is odd to me because its a position that on average folks spend that amount of time in before moving up. I believe it causes higher turnover in the first year as an SDR and would love to see a higher starting pay and clearer path forward to improve motivation and retention. I also wish they had mentioned in the interview that commission is 50% taxed, I understand this is common practice but didn't feel like there was great transparency on this. Lastly, feel like theres an unbalanced approach to in person office culture, it doesn't seem to be applied equally across all teams (for instance the Sales team seems to have the most pressure to be in person, most other teams it seems are are able to work remotely more flexibly). Just makes it confusing when you can ask to work remotely due to weather or personal reasons, only to show up and find that you are the only one in office which can be frustrating and cause unnecessary tension.

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