Smart, fun team but organization lacks vision and discipline - Anonymous employee Kapost Employee Review

3.0
Oct 20, 2018
Anonymous employee
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Pros

My positive experiences are largely team specific. There were extremely smart and caring people throughout the company. Individuals worked very hard to exceed expectations and cared about helping their colleagues succeed. At least for my team, building and maintaining culture was a high priority, not just something to pay lip service to. In general, Kapost was a fun company where good friendships developed and employees had generous work-life balance.

Cons

The biggest con for me was that the company lacked vision and the discipline to see one through. In my few years there, I went through multiple, abrupt pivots. It felt as if the exec team regularly made decisions out of desperation and as a result, dug itself deeper into desperation. Additionally, while there were a few great leaders at Kapost, management often behaved like a boys' club and that behavior trickles down as a result. There was also really high turnover at Kapost; it seemed as if someone awesome was leaving every week (occasionally with a bit of scandal). Those that stayed seemed driven to do so because of the generous work-life balance and to feed their egos, not because they cared about improving the product or the content marketing community. While work-life balance is great, pay is notably below market. At first this seemed like a good compromise but since leaving, I've learned it's remarkably, almost offensively, lower.

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Kapost Response
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Thank you for taking time to share your feedback. It’s great that you enjoyed the team you started with at Kapost and that you had a good work-life balance while you were here. Of course, as a growing company, there are points where we do have to make changes to support our growth and our customers. This means that new teams have to be put into place, and roles shifted to allow us to expand. Even though these changes are a natural part of growth, I hear they may not have been a great fit for you, and at points may have felt challenging. I am sorry to hear you felt as if the leadership team behaved as a “boys’ club”. As a member of the leadership team at Kapost, and a woman, that has not been my experience. The team takes our core values seriously and works steadily to create a great culture where all people are heard and supported. While we sometimes get it wrong, we work to course correct when we do and are very open to continuing to improve and grow. Please email HR at peopleops@kapost.com if you have any suggestions to help us be better. We wish you all the best in your future endeavors.

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