Condé Nast Reviews in New York City, NY Area

Pros

Conde Nast has a great benefits package, especially if you start out and work your way up through the company.

Movement within seems to be fairly common.

Cons

As any large company is, it is very corporate with little room to color outside the lines.

Pros

Freebies, learning experience, very willing to help you understand the industry

Cons

Long hours and can be stressful

Pros

You're publishing the highest quality product. On the marketing side you have large marketing budgets and great design teams.

Cons

You don't get paid much as a young person. You have to leave the company to get a substantial raise.

Pros

Fun, exciting company to work for. Certainly learn a lot about publishing and advertising, the good & the bad. A lot of good people to work amongst.

Cons

Private company with no formal review process and therefore, evaluation and promotion opportunites are extremely hard to come by. Even when they do, the salaries are significantly below market average.

Advice to Senior Management

Communicate to employees more and foster & promote (especially monetarily) existing employees

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.

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.

Pros

perks, work/life balance, compensation, location

Cons

phonieness, systems, hr, decentralization, lack of career growth

Advice to Senior Management

look at what time inc is doing

Pros

-smart people, cafeteria, fashion foward, no screamers

Cons

-not tech savvy culture
-living in a magazine bubble
-people work in fear
-no diversity
-no training

Advice to Senior Management

-no training
-no upgrade of laptops/computers since the early 2000's

Pros

Great environment to be in surrounded by fashion. Also interesting to see the upcoming trends and features that the magazine eventually releases.

Cons

Busy work, all day. No please or thank you's. Disrespect, and lots of heavy lifting. Definitely nothing glamorous!

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