Profound lack of organization - Software Engineer Conductor Employee Review

2.0
Mar 14, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

A lot of great people trying to get things done. Solid CI process that seems to work well.

Cons

I waited a while to write this review because I did not want to say something in the heat of the moment. The engineering department lacks direction and structure. The CTO is very nice but is too focused on the business side of things and not enough on the technical side. A strong VP of Engineering could alleviate that problem but there wasn't one and still isn't as far as I know. There are no architects either so every development team kind of does what they want and figuring out the right way to do something depends on finding someone with a strong opinion. As a result, microservices don't seem to follow any conventions. There is a DevOps team that seems to operate independently of development which doesn't make any sense. There is a legacy monolith that runs on an antique version of Java that I thankfully did not have to deal with. The office itself is kind of run down and a large part of it is populated by sales folks who make so much noise that I often had trouble concentrating. There are regular "all hands" meetings that feel like their only purpose is so some of the senior leadership can hear themselves talk. The CEO is a nice enough guy who seems like he hasn't realized that Conductor has become a much larger company than when he started it. He will also just start talking to you while you're in the bathroom which is more than a little awkward.

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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

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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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