Does KONE pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, KONE employees rate their compensation and benefits as 3.8 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at KONE. This rating has improved by 2% over the last 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at KONE?

79% of KONE employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated KONE 4.0 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.9 for culture and values and 3.6 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at KONE?

Project Manager (55) , Engineer (50) , Manager (44) , Technicien de maintenance (27) , Sales (25) , Technician (24) , Assistant Manager (23) , Sales Manager (23) , Sales Engineer (22) , Sales Representative (22) , Design Engineer (19) , Maintenance Technician (19) , Software Engineer (19) , Human Resources (17) , Lift Engineer (17)

What are the pros of working at KONE according to real employee reviews?

"work life balance is good" ((in 153 reviews)); "Surrounded by great and sporting colleagues" ((in 103 reviews)); "Good culture and value system" ((in 96 reviews)); "Good benefits and fiendly colleagues" ((in 83 reviews)); "People are great and ambitious." ((in 76 reviews))

What are the cons of working at KONE according to real employee reviews?

"low salaries and difficult to get increases" ((in 79 reviews)); "Poor management and always changing." ((in 74 reviews)); "One of the director has favoritism and doesn’t trust people he doesn’t like." ((in 5 reviews)); "Working under pressure, no official working hours, Management Team is not on the ground to understand the obstacles that we face, easy to loose they high caliber pipeline to competitors, actions only taken when there is a big problem." ((in 5 reviews))

What are employees saying about KONE layoffs in 2026?

Explore Glassdoor’s employee reviews to understand what current and former employees are saying about KONE layoffs and their outlook for job security at KONE in 2026.

What are the top reviewed KONE locations?

Moline , Allen , Lisle , Chicago , New York , Houston , Atlanta , Washington , Dallas , Minneapolis , San Francisco , Madison , Omaha , Raleigh , Coppell , Knoxville , Memphis , Nashville , West Chester , Los Angeles , New Orleans , Redmond , Portland , Philadelphia , Plainsboro , Birmingham , Joliet , Naperville , Milan , Long Island City

KONE reviews

3.9

79% would recommend to a friend

(1,923 total reviews)

Philippe Delorme (President and CEO) and Henrik Ehrnrooth (Executive Advisor)

91% approve of CEO

75% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

4.1

Diversity & inclusion

4.0

Work/Life balance

3.9

Culture & values

3.8

Compensation and benefits

3.6

Career opportunities

3.4

Senior management

KONE has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 1,923 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

4.0

Jan 21, 2014

Employee Focused But in Need of Balance

Anonymous employee

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

As an organization KONE is very focused on its employees and tries to make the right decisions in support of their employees. Will try and provide the appropriate tools and processes to aid employees in doing their work as well as providing development opportunities.

Cons

Even though KONE is a global company, they run extremely lean and in many ways run it like a small company. Sr. Leadership is hyper focused on fixed cost and management of headcount across the organization. There seems to be a check the box mentality when it comes to staff functions pushing initiatives and failing to see impact on the front line business. Better balance between coporate initiatives and running the day-to-day business is needed.

3.0

Nov 26, 2013

Surreal

Anonymous employee

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Challenging and complex work environment

Cons

Tedious and complex processes in the company

1.0

Nov 14, 2013

KONE is about as competitive as a quarterback with a broken throwing arm.

Service sales representative

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

If you can figure out the business, you can get a job at a different elevator company!!

Cons

Management changes all the time! They fire the management on average ever 1.5 years and then try to rebuild, but by the time they hire new managers, the other manager get fired. It's a vicious cycle of impatient people in Finland trying to instantly turn around a slow cycle business in the US.

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