Great place to go from ZERO-TO-HERO as a Software Developer - Software Developer Kickdrum Employee Review

5.0
Oct 28, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Interns have to go through a 3-month top-tier training program also known as the Kickdrum University (KDU) which makes them competent software developers able to develop scalable applications involving everything from frontend design to backend APIs including cloud hosting and infrastructure management. - Interns have to make an end-to-end full-stack application which they have to eventually get reviewed by the principals of Kickdrum with an immense amount of knowledge and they get a chance to learn from the best and see their insights as well. Just to put some icing on the cake, they have degrees from the top universities in the world for eg. Stanford, UCB, Imperial College, etc. I guess it speaks for itself their caliber in this industry. - The company consists of a lot of avid software developers with too much knowledge of all of the technologies being used. The people at kickdrum are not just specialists in a particular technology, rather they have a knowledge of the whole architecture around the system running. Every day I get to learn and improve myself by watching others' work and insights. - Opportunity to get good exposure to big client projects. - The management team is quite helpful and friendly here as well. - Office space is quite asthetic and work culture is fantastic.

Cons

I have not faced any problems till now.

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Kickdrum Response
3y
Thank you for the feedback; We love that you are enjoying the learning opportunities at Kickdrum. We take pride in hiring and working with A players.

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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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