Clique culture, terrible salaries and stuck in the dark ages.
Pros
You get to say you work at Conde Nast (Vogue and GQ) but that's about it. Nice offices at the Adelphi. Nice coffee.
Cons
Very political, terrible salaries. Conflicts of interest between London and New York. Senior management not present and away with the fairies. Sadly, the culture is very much about worshipping certain individuals who think the world revolves around them, this, in turn, has created cliques who "lunch". You only progress if you brown nose some people and shout the loudest. They talk about being digitally focused but there is hardly any innovation given clunky old systems and archaic ways of doing things. Salaries are beneath-market across the board, but 'selected' individuals have huge disparities in their favour because they are 'special'. Underneath all the gloss of the magazines sadly lays a terrible culture that breeds horrible habits, hence the term Conde Nasty.
