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Kapost reviews

3.6

63% would recommend to a friend

(9 total reviews)
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Toby Murdock

67% approve of CEO

53% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

4.1

Culture & values

4.1

Diversity & inclusion

4.1

Work/Life balance

3.7

Career opportunities

3.5

Compensation and benefits

3.4

Senior management

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9 reviews

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3.0
Oct 20, 2018

Smart, fun team but organization lacks vision and discipline

Anonymous employee
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Pros

My positive experiences are largely team specific. There were extremely smart and caring people throughout the company. Individuals worked very hard to exceed expectations and cared about helping their colleagues succeed. At least for my team, building and maintaining culture was a high priority, not just something to pay lip service to. In general, Kapost was a fun company where good friendships developed and employees had generous work-life balance.

Cons

The biggest con for me was that the company lacked vision and the discipline to see one through. In my few years there, I went through multiple, abrupt pivots. It felt as if the exec team regularly made decisions out of desperation and as a result, dug itself deeper into desperation. Additionally, while there were a few great leaders at Kapost, management often behaved like a boys' club and that behavior trickles down as a result. There was also really high turnover at Kapost; it seemed as if someone awesome was leaving every week (occasionally with a bit of scandal). Those that stayed seemed driven to do so because of the generous work-life balance and to feed their egos, not because they cared about improving the product or the content marketing community. While work-life balance is great, pay is notably below market. At first this seemed like a good compromise but since leaving, I've learned it's remarkably, almost offensively, lower.

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Kapost Response
7y
Thank you for taking time to share your feedback. It’s great that you enjoyed the team you started with at Kapost and that you had a good work-life balance while you were here. Of course, as a growing company, there are points where we do have to make changes to support our growth and our customers. This means that new teams have to be put into place, and roles shifted to allow us to expand. Even though these changes are a natural part of growth, I hear they may not have been a great fit for you, and at points may have felt challenging. I am sorry to hear you felt as if the leadership team behaved as a “boys’ club”. As a member of the leadership team at Kapost, and a woman, that has not been my experience. The team takes our core values seriously and works steadily to create a great culture where all people are heard and supported. While we sometimes get it wrong, we work to course correct when we do and are very open to continuing to improve and grow. Please email HR at peopleops@kapost.com if you have any suggestions to help us be better. We wish you all the best in your future endeavors.
4.0
Jul 17, 2018

Software Engineer Experience

Anonymous employee
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Pros

This was my first position as a software engineer. Other engineers were generally very helpful when I needed direction, the director of engineering met with me weekly to check in and pair on whatever I was working on. The code base is big and the tech stack is deep so I got a lot of opportunity to see new frameworks, tools, and languages and their patterns throughout the code base. And, I got to work on a lot of really interesting and challenging stories. When I left this position after 8 months, I was incredibly well prepared for my next (current) position. Remote at least one day a week. Fabulous PTO. Not sure if this should go in pros or cons: At least in my corner of the building, it's the sort of work environment where folks come in, get their work done, and go home -- not a lot of chatting about life outside of work. It's good if you're a "heads down and get it done" sort of person -- lots of good focus time -- but not a lot of get-to-know-your-coworkers-as-humans time. Lot's of smart folks to learn from and everyone always seems to be doing their best, which I super appreciate.

Cons

Salary is in the average range, but at the low end of average for the Denver metro area. Also, while this isn't a con for me, it might be for others who are new to programming: be ready to get thrown into the deep end of the code base on day 1. There are no junior level tickets. ;)

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Kapost Response
7y
Thank you for taking the time to provide your feedback. We really appreciate it and we wish you the best of luck on your new adventures.
2.0
Jun 5, 2018

It's a trap!

Anonymous employee
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Pros

- The product actually works and fills a real need in the market - A Boulder startup who pays their bonuses

Cons

I've made a lot of friends at Kapost and quite frankly, what's left of them are the only reason I continue to work here. I've watched entire departments turn over (some twice) from a significant lack of true leadership; we've lost a lot of very talented people due to micromanaging or leadership being too involved in the day-to-day, preventing the brilliant people that work under them from doing their job. Dozens of exit interviews, a handful of company surveys, years of Glassdoor reviews and yet, management refuses to look in the mirror. No amount of La Croix, happy hours, or company retreats is going to hide what employees have been saying since before I started working here and continue to say as they leave--leadership is what's holding this company back and is driving all the self-starting, internally driven innovative talent away. How much longer can leadership plead ignorance when they take ideas mid-development, overcomplicate it to the point of non-recognition to the original goal, force the execution of this contorted version and then be surprised when it doesn't succeed?

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Kapost Response
8y
Thank you for your review. We're sorry to hear that you've had issues with leadership. We take all concerns very seriously. Please e-mail me at peopleops@kapost.com to discuss how we can improve. I'd welcome the opportunity to better understand your specific challenges and what we can do to improve them.
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