Kapost reviews

Classic startup woes. CEO is a hothead who's more of a project manager than a leader, product gaps get in the way of growth, and big money spent on offices / off-sites while struggling with sales. Constant strategy shifts are hard to keep up with. HR team promoted alcohol and pizza parties heavily as the culture. Many are early in career & learning on the job, yet no job training and a lot of complaining and blaming when problems come up. A hot mess of a company.

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.