Conduktor Reviews

The CEO & CTO (co-founders). In my entire time at Conduktor, I don't think I once spoke to someone who liked the CEO or enjoyed working with him. It is true that CEOs aren't there to be liked, they are there to lead companies well. He, unfortunately, does neither. He would change his mind on the direction of the company every other quarter. First it was ****, then it was ****, then it was whatever else he came up with. All in the span of under a year. His company-wide messages on Slack were always corporate BS without actually addressing the concerns that staff had. The CTO had no idea, for some reason, that he was NO LONGER an engineer. He would still contribute AI slop PRs and the engineers that worked on his team would be responsible for reviewing it. That creates such a weird position for them because would you be really honest if his PR was trash? Probably not. He never actually coded anything by hand and instead just vibe coded all of his PRs which, of course, introduced bugs into the code that engineers needed to then clean up. No one wanted to be on a team with him because of all of this but some had unfortunately drawn the short straw and you could feel that it was getting to them having to work with him. I'm really sad to have to write this review as I think the company, staff and product itself were really really cool and was a great place to work at both professionally & socially. Unfortunately, these latest layoffs where they got rid of basically their entire engineering department means the company will continue going downhill if the CEO & CTO think they have nothing to change about themselves. The CTO will keep alienating all of the remaining engineers until they all leave. One AI slop PR at a time. It's saddening to not be able to recommend this company anymore to people who might have an offer from them as they did these sort of layoffs once. SWORE they would never do it again and lo and behold, here we are with a massive layoff yet again. I can bet they will at some point mass hire again and the cycle repeats.

- Salary cheating – bonus that will be promised you will never get. It is just the way to cut the price. - Salary level - should be not more than you can get in the rural area of France like Lille or better less. - You will not get software and hardware products - to full fill your tasks that were promised. - Disrespectful behavior and being mean to people in case of a tiny mistake. - High turnover- people can leave the company after 2 weeks from their start, as cofounders can decide that they did not show a result. - Not a remote company – as it was claimed, in some locations it is obligatory to visit the office. Founders changed their minds from what they said at the beginning. - People don’t have a voice in the company – you have no way to argue or share your opinion. - Lack of management skills - don’t be lured by Stephane Derosiaux who makes the first impression as a trustworthy person who needs some help. All that was mentioned above is his management style or smth that he has copied from his former managers and thinks that how the leader should be. - Best decision is to wait and see, as soon they will run out of money and founders will learn a lesson from investors by becoming free from their responsibilities and company.