Condé Nast reviews

3.2

41% would recommend to a friend

(1,893 total reviews)
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Roger Lynch

38% approve of CEO

29% positive business outlook

Condé Nast has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 1,893 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Condé Nast employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Audiovisual y medios de comunicación industry (3.7 stars).

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4.0
Sep 30, 2015

Don't drink the Kool-Aid

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Pros

Name recognition, looks great on your resume. Benefits are great, and lots of company discounts. The smart people here are some of the smartest in the industry. The company is trying to make itself into a digital leader and has taken good steps to do so. You'll make some great connections.

Cons

A lot of hype about the brand(s) & how the company has the best audience, but it's mostly talk. The best people rarely stay, either because the environment is bonkers or they can't get promoted. Often people leave for a better role and come back at a much higher level after a couple years. No wonder they leave because if you ask for an increase & actually want to stay it won't be approved. There are great ideas, but no one can figure out the execution; or if they do it's after a royal screw-up. The nepotism is extreme in certain groups. People without proper skills are promoted because they have the right friends. Mid and lower level employees are never consulted; when it comes to changes and reorganizations they're only told to figure it out once the decisions have been made, even when those decisions don't actually benefit the country.

2.0
Sep 30, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

I think one of, if not the only, good things about this place is having the name on your resume. Condé Nast means something especially on a resume. Also, there are so many talented and influential people here, and I'm not just talking AW (although she obviously is one), but it inspires you to want to work here. You meet even the most junior of people and hear what they're doing/working on and you're just in such awe. But that may be the only good thing.

Cons

-No work/life balance, especially for those on the edit side -There's no real training given here. Even the head of HR stated that Condé Nast has a culture of not training people. They'd rather have people go someplace else and get experience and then return rather than have people stay and actually support/develop/train them (shows just how much they invest in their people...aka they don't) -Pretty bureaucratic (but its corporate, so that's expected) -it amazes me how obsessed CN is with millennials, all we talked about was millennials and going digital, and how we need to listen to what millennials want as their demographic is really growing in power.....yet management would disregard, and I mean not even make an attempt, to listen to the suggestions of their millennial employees. I mean come on, we know what our generation wants better than you and yet you don't even attempt to listen to/hear what we have to say. -Pay is HORRENDOUS. Starting salary for Sales Assistants is $28k.....publishing is notorious for underpaying but that's just ridiculous. You'd have to work yourself into crazy OT just to make a normal salary...and even then some brands won't allow you to work OT. HR claims there's just no budget to pay people more but yet you hear the whispers of what some of the execs (EIC, Publishers, C-Suite) make and it really makes you question the distribution of wealth.

4.0
Sep 18, 2015

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Pros

Prestige, perks, talented colleagues, better than average pay

Cons

Struggling to find digital footing, mean people

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