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Putting lipstick on a pig - Manager Kony Employee Review

1.0
Jul 24, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Good pay nice working conditions. Very nice people at Kony but few are empowered (ironic since our slogan is Empowering Everywhere).

Cons

Kony's solutions are complex, confusing and engineered by incompetence. It has hired an all new executive team none familiar with the mobile market and are trying to put lipstick on the Kony pig. It's a shell game for an IPO. We are losing customers right an left. If you work here you better dust off your resume as HR exec is hunting for you. Meanwhile the executives now in Texas or California rarely show up in Orlando. They are up in the Kony cloud somewhere.

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Kony Response
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Kony has hired a new executive team who come from the enterprise software space with consistent track records of success and who indeed are very familiar with the Mobile Solutions space. The vision is to continue to grow revenues and further position Kony as the Market Leader and a potential IPO is part of the longer term strategy. Our products have been recognized by the Gartner Group and we have been awarded the "leader" position on their magic quadrant two years in a row. Our executive team has visited Orlando, Florida on a frequent basis and will continue to do so moving forward.

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5.0
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Pros

1) Great base salaries 2) Amazing group of talented folks 3) Great tools and technology stack 4) Diverse portfolio of industry verticals to choose as your workstream 5) Room to grow in your career path

Cons

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2.0
Feb 5, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The employees are great. Most people are very smart and passionate about what they do. In the time I was there I never had any problem working with anyone in the company. Always someone to go to lunch with and lots of staff drinks after work (mostly organized by staff and not management) Good flexibility for work-life balance...for some people

Cons

- Disorganized. - Not diverse. - No support for career advancement/training/certification/education - Totally inconsistent with a lack of focus. Strategic direction seems to change every 6 months and it never makes complete sense. - Leadership is tone deaf to the market and is not willing to adapt. Stubbornness is why nothing is selling and the company is falling apart. - Top Leadership doesn't engage with employees unless they feel like they have to. - HR is beyond useless and gossips about EVERYONE. There is no confidentiality in HR. - Lots of recent turnover with long time employees because of messed up operations and managers egos. - LOTS of people have left to go work for the founder of Kony at his new company, or they left to go back to their old jobs. - TERRIBLE operations. Travel policy is crazy!!! Some people can't afford to come out of pocekt and be reimbursed for almost everything. $7k in expenses for travel is ridiculous!

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