So many problems, and leadership is the biggest of them all! - Anonymous employee Kickdrum Employee Review

1.0
Mar 8, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

If someone tells you they had a great time working for Kickdrum, they are lying to you!

Cons

Working for Kickdrum was such a miserable experience! My salary was low, my work-life balance was awful, and there wasn't any room for growth/advancement, but the biggest headache about working here was the leadership! They were incredibly controlling and micromanaged employees. Their constant meddling made our jobs a lot more difficult and made it almost impossible to meet deadlines on time without working overtime. Definitely wouldn't recommend working here to anyone!

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4.0
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Pros

Great at providing employee support.

Cons

Bad at giving free time.

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Kickdrum Response
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Thank you for the feedback. We believe in work-play-learn and attempt to give equal emphasis to all three. As an organization, we try to strike a balance between work and play by having meeting free Fridays, flexible leaves, weekly sports outings, and hybrid work options to name a few.
2.0
Jul 1, 2026
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Pros

The office had decent snacks and the Austin location itself is nice.

Cons

I entered the establishment with the expectation that the diversity and inclusion messaging I had encountered would be genuine, but it was nothing more than a facade. Every meeting had someone talking about how committed we were to DEI, we had all these initiatives and discussion groups, but when it came to actual decision-making and who got promoted or heard in the room it was the same people every single time. I watched people from underrepresented groups bring ideas that went nowhere and then a few months later someone else would get credit for basically the same thing. The constant talking points about inclusion made it worse somehow, because the gap between what we said and what we did was so obvious. I am not asking for perfection but the disconnect between all the messaging and the reality was exhausting and demoralizing.

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