Great Name - Operational Nightmare - Anonymous employee KKR Employee Review

1.0
Feb 21, 2024
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great name and reputation in the business Opportunities to work cross functionally

Cons

Extremely long hours High turnover Inexperienced leadership. KKR's operations department has suffered from high turnover at the leadership level and hiring of inexperienced professionals to backfill previous leadership. This creates an operational nightmare as the long tenured "leaders" only know KKR's way of completing tasks and aren't open to ideas from new joiners. It's unfortunate as the business allows new joiners to sometime begin meetings in order to have "fresh eyes" provide a new look. Operations side of the house could learn from this model. HR department also needs to consider how they approach situations professionally instead of taking offense to open and honest feedback.

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Pros

Lunch is amazing, office is modern, interesting work

Cons

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1.0
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Pros

Free food. The list of positives ends there.

Cons

Absolute dumpster fire. No direction, no organization, and no clear path forward. It was an incredibly frustrating experience from the start

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