Condé Nast Reviews

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

Learn a lot, fast-pace enviornment where you can steer your destiny.

Cons

Corporate mentality, takes long time to get answers to something outside the box

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

learned a lot while working there
interesting people
lots of independence
fun environment
everybody was very friendly and encouraging of interns

Cons

not very much individual responsibility was given to me
i was the only intern in the office during the summer

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 benefits
low stress environment
Autonomy if you desire it

Cons

Outstanding performance goes unnoticed & unrewarded
9-5 mentality, people not willing to go the extra mile to make certain work gets done

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

They are always looking for the next big idea. I have never been told any idea was unachievable quite the contrary. Great benefits, overall very supportive work environment.

Cons

Like most work places there are cliques. If you are an "outsider" things can be tough. A lot of promotions have been based on popularity and not necessary how hard someone works. More attention should be paid to career development and inter-company movement.

Advice to Senior Management

I think overall great job navigating tough times, but need to pay more attention to staff development of long term staffer and hiring more staff where needed. HR could be better at finding talent. I believe they are more concerned with how prestigious someone's college was than thieir ability to do the job.

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.