KONE reviews

3.8

76% would recommend to a friend

(1,927 total reviews)
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Philippe Delorme (President and CEO) and Henrik Ehrnrooth (Executive Advisor)

91% approve of CEO

72% positive business outlook

KONE has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 1,927 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The KONE employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Construction, Repair & Maintenance Services industry (3.6 stars).

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2K reviews
2.0
Mar 11, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

FREE FOOD AND TRANSPORT GOOD LEAVES YEARLY PARTY AND GIFTS HYBRID WORKING HOURS

Cons

The work culture has deteriorated a lot in last one year due to reorgs in KONE IT India. Typical manager has become a leader and because of the same only politics is something that is going on in the organisation . We all can see dictatorship in the behavior and nothing else. The recent appraisal process was a hog wash as everyone got reduced ratings ( except the chosen and favorite ones ) irrespective of their contribution to the organisation. All the work and contribution got wasted as they got reduced ratings and that to also without any justification. Anyway this is how it is. The work culture has reduced to a political game and whoever does more is rewarded. Chooses people are asked to join the organisation and are given key responsibilities irrespective of their background or experience. It used to be a very good Finnish organisation, however now it has become a typical Indian company where people make sure their whimsical ideas are dictated. The HR policies are not great too which generally helps employees .Very difficult to grow here as career growth is almost negligible. If this continues we don't see any future here.

1.0
Feb 9, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

1. Finnish people are nice to work with 2. On-time salary

Cons

1. If you are stuck with one team and want to learn additional skills, it is almost impossible in GEC, as they want you to work on the same team until you die. Job shadowing is only in HR policy but not in actual implementation as far as GEC is concerned. 2. In GEC they will use the notice period serving time to their will. If you have a better opportunity and are willing to pay the remaining unserviced time of notice period they won't agree to that. And force you to serve the notice period thus you lose the better opportunity at hand. And the funny thing is, if you join the competitor company, even though you have served the notice period as mentioned in the employment contract, they will not provide the experience certificate and would like to play games with your future. 3. The funny thing is even if you raise a serious complaint against your manager, they will ask you to continue working under them but will not take any disciplinary action against them. It includes that even if you are experiencing severe mental stress they could not care less about that. 4. My team seniors are there only to take orders from the manager and never collaborate with the junior engineers. This will enable them to only provide orders from the top and expect them(the juniors) to complete work on time in the most unempathetic manner. 5, Mostly in GEC you will get only lift industry-specific experience and cannot extend your job search outside the elevator industry. This will give only KONE and its competitors your employment opportunity but KONE won't provide you the experience certificate if you happen to join the competitor, funny right? 6. In my tenure here, in this team I have experienced severe male dominance and come across many misogynistic male employees 7. My manager is a malignant presence, a liar and a perpetual bully. The entire team would agree with me on this but they are powerless when it comes to removing the manager from his position.

5.0
Aug 10, 2022

Life in KONE

Recommend
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Pros

Work life balance and self enhancement

Cons

Pay is below market average

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