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Disastrous and Clueless - Anonymous employee Kony Employee Review

1.0
Sep 17, 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Good base salary. Mobile industry background. Leader in Gartner MQ FWIW. Definitely presents an opportunity to learn a lot in this exciting space.

Cons

I have been here through the old regime and onto new regime. So will share thoughts on both regimes because even though the new regime is trying to establish professionalism, respect etc. a lot of baggage from past exists. Old regime - abusive management, no respect for the individual, nepotism - more like a friends and family company, no processes, demoralizing management, no growth opportunity and poor sales growth New regime - some of the new execs especially CEO and CMO are outstanding. Trying to change the past culture to make it more respectful but honestly execution of that is falling through since there is a lot of past B and C players in middle management who won't change unless they are fired. They have hired a new sales head who has a huge challenge on his hands right from hiring A players to growing sales. no chance of that happening anytime soon. The products team is a disaster. poor quality and Prod Mgmt has zillion VPs even more than a $500M company. Most of the VPs are incompetent and don't know Product Management. Whatever top talent Kony has are leaving in bunches. I have heard the Foster city office is a ghost town and totally demoralizing to see two handful of employees and a lot of empty space where the team can use to play soccer. I do see that new HR is trying to add employer response to negative reviews. The objective here is to help HR change things by working with exec management and not to sound like a disgruntled employee. The feedback is very objective and just stating the facts. So don't waste your time adding a response to this. take this feedback constructively and try and stop losing more talented folks.

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5.0
Aug 30, 2019
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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

1) Low contribution from the company on 401-K

2.0
Feb 5, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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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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