Time to reboot and upgrade - Engineer XKL Employee Review

1.0
Aug 13, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Opportunities to roll up sleeves and do interesting work. Decent health benefits. Some good people are still here. Good start out pay. Good sized teams and quality team mates.

Cons

Too much burueocracy for a small 30 person company. Management is out of touch with reality and deluded about their ability to lead us to success. Operations is more concerned with fighting other departments for control and going on daily power trips instead of doing real work that could help the company be successful. I have never experienced such a disfunctional place where people are rewarded and promoted only if they are blood relatives with the head of operations and if they focus only on punching the clock with no regard for doing any productive work. Causing terminal delays for engineering and sales seems to be the company goal and fostering a spiteful gossipy workplace seems to be the highest priority of the current management team.

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5.0
Apr 16, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

XKL provided a great place to work and an opportunity that was made even better by how they handled Covid with their staff and customers. During this time, not only was my work acknowledged and praised, and more opportunities were given to expand my role. As an example, My role was given more leeway and autonomy to control the content and job outcome. Management had been very perceptive to changes, and provided strong support. Leaving was definitely a painful decision to make.

Cons

Based remotely from the Company head office meant to travel to/from the office was cumbersome or not possible during Covid. Not the fault of the company - but I missed the human interaction.

2.0
Apr 10, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Very good developers at the time

Cons

No support from the C-Level

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