Condé Nast Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Condé Nast full-time for more than a year

Pros – The best editors and writers in the business work here, and the corporate structure is maybe the most stable and well-run in the industry.

Cons – The corporate management is far removed from the decisions made in editorial, which means that investments come slowly and often for obscure reasons

Advice to Senior Management – Need more aggressiveness in pursuing a portfolio strategy on the web, as opposed to centralized management that creates a lack of differentiation and voice among the various web properties

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Condé Nast

Pros – Good Hours, Good Bosses, Fun, Laid-back.

Cons – The magazine business is going down the pipes :(

Former Employee – worked at Condé Nast as an intern for less than a year

Pros – HR was amazingly supportive
Great fast-paced environment that pushed me to produce my best work quickly
Was given actual work - very little "intern work"
Was treated like a member of the dept
Attended all meetings, including those with VP and Editor-in-Chief
Everyone had great career advice
Gained a mentor and will most likely be employed after graduation
Stipend
Speaker series
Intern events
Intern-produced magazine

Cons – Sometimes unrealistic about quality of work expected of higher level employees in understaffed departments
Daily stress

Advice to Senior Management – Need better way to reach tech dept, continue to improve technology, need better way to access emails from home

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Condé Nast as an intern for less than a year

Pros – Some of the most talented individuals in the industry. Seems to be a big believe in promoting from within.

Cons – Competitive. The limited number of available job openings.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Condé Nast as an intern for less than a year

Pros – * Looks Amazing on a resume
* Friendly Staff
* Flexible with hours
* Good set of projects
* Not your coffee run/mail run internship

Cons – * Not respectful of the extra hours and energy unpaid interns put in
* Hire more experienced interns to work under less experienced employees; who have trouble handling their own interns and exemplifying corporate professionalism.
* Sales Assistants with interns need to have better professional skills, organizational skills and respect when working with interns.
* Very quiet office environment. So quiet you can here a pen drop, which means successful future interns should know how to control themselves; if they have a very lively, enthusiastic and bubbly personality. The reason is because it could be misconstrued for unprofessionalism; contrasts to other Conde Nast offices.
* Many interns have resigned because they did not like the internship (This says a lot to this particular office; especially it being Conde Nast, an internship that is one and a lifetime).
* This office clearly has trouble following the Conde Nast Internship rules and regulations; which is dangerous for the company as a whole. Conde Nast needs to look into this. :)

Advice to Senior Management – - Re-Assess your hiring process when it comes to less experienced executive assistants. Do not give a new /less experienced employee an intern if they have not been trained to handle an intern. They need to exemplify professionalism, and always be able to control their emotions if they are struggling or having a bad day. If the employee is working with an intern who is not only suppose to be helping them get the work done, but also is also there for the manager to mentor and prepare them for the corporate environment after college then they need to make sure they are giving their interns what they came to work for them for; and make sure the Conde Nast internship rules and values are followed.

- Make sure your new and younger employees exemplify corporate professionalism at all times. It's also important to remember that the way your executives display their professionalism skills with interns (good or bad) will always be something that stands out in an interns mind, and also make interns develop their own opinions and assessments about that particular office. Just because were interns, doesn't mean we won't have a CEO/ or director title in this industry in the future. Its important to make sure your reputation as a company is positive within your interns when they leave! Your employees are a massive part of your reputation and people's opinion about you! :)

- Overall, this office has friendly executives and its company "Conde Nast" has an awesome internship program. However, the Chicago office has a lot of improvements to make when it comes to the respect of their interns time, who they chose their interns to work directly with, and how they treat their interns as far as allegations or assumptions made my other office executives. I think looking at these issues will prevent any future terminations, voluntary terminations, or legal filings within the program. i also think some changes need to be made within the Chicago office and who they choose to hire as employees!

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Condé Nast as an intern for less than a year

Pros – They were very nice and helpful. Learned a lot of things related to the graphics field

Cons – Wish they had more hiring options

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Former Employee – worked at Condé Nast

Pros – Great work environment.
Extremely talented people.
Great Benefits.
Good balance between work/life

Cons – you must be able to withstand the constant reorganizations, and have a strong ability to adapt to constant change.

Advice to Senior Management – formalize a strong consistent strategy and vision, understand that the content Conde Nast Publications provides is where it's core value is. The medium of delivery is unimportant the content is. diversify revenue sources, stop relying so heavily on print advertising.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Condé Nast

Pros – Great working environment! People are friendly in corporate and want to help you out. Gain tthe greatest experiences of all time, from consumers to print to digital. You work with your intern class to create your own personalized magazine.

Cons – It is an Un-paid Internship.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Condé Nast

Pros – Nice Pay, Very Good environment and nice people to work with. Not much politics, overall a good place to work.

Cons – Bit old technologies, Bit difficult to climb the ladders in top management.

Advice to Senior Management – nothing

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Condé Nast

Pros – The pro's of the Conde Nast Summer Internship Program are endless. Out of the ongoing list, my top three pro's would have to be the following:
1. Unbelievable dedication to making sure every intern was given a complete understanding and experience of the entire Conde Nast/publishing industry, regardless of personal placement.
2. The entire Conde Nast company/all employees were delightful to work for and extremely kind, genuine, and always willing to help clarify or further explain
3. The Conde Nast building (4 Times Square) is impeccably clean, easy to commute to, and very safe

Cons – The only "con" that I can truly admit to after spending three months at Conde Nast was that as a part of the internship program, the compensation was a measly $8 per day...very hard to be able to afford when being a college student in NYC!

Advice to Senior Management – If there were anything to offer in order to improve the program I would suggest more/other/additional ways to compensate interns!

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend