good colleagues, bad management - Anonymous employee Conductor Employee Review

1.0
12 Jul 2024
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Pros

Middle management is very good at Conductor. I worked at Conductor for 3 years and I only knew one or two people who disliked their managers.

Cons

- Upper management (C-Suite) has genuinely nice people in it, but they are completely dysfunctional as execs. They base company strategy on vibes, don't make any big plans in advance, and then panic when strategies don't work right away. Company/sales/CS strategy changes wildly every 6 months or so because of this. This is what causes every other problem at the company -- everyone there is overworked and underpaid. Executives' solution to every problem is to hustle harder (the company used to be owned by WeWork, and it shows) and make employees pull all nighters to re-do finished work. -The salary you get when you're hired will be your salary forever. The only way I heard of anyone getting a substantial raise was through a competing offer. This is why so many top employees have left the company: they got competing offers and then realized they would be better off elsewhere. - No job security. The company has been through 6 or 7 rounds of layoffs in the last 2 years. - No people-first culture, despite all the lip service. The CEO forced a return to office for 4 days per week despite this being extremely unpopular among employees. Some employees have to come in 4 days per week; others can work from home with no clear reason for this besides favoritism. There is no work/life balance; you will get emails and calls from senior leaders at all hours of the night and weekend.

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5.0
20 May 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
28 Jan 2026
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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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