A great startup that went south.....
Pros
A LVMH company - great to have on your resume. Fancy hotel stays for those who travel for work if you pick the right cities. Discounts on cosmetic, wines and champagne. Some freebies products as well. Content knowledge for the job not requirement as long as you are up for playing politics and riding your manager's coat tail. Minimum of one party a month with a open bar till closing. Great company for new entry to the workforce - to learn and observe sub-par work ethics and build tolerance to incompetency
Cons
Kendo is a great company with a lot of potential. Unfortunately those who were hired to be "leaders" of the company have not stepped up. Instead they have continued to make bad hires and foster an environment of favoritism and animosity. Reviews refer to high school behaviors of gossips and backstabbings and most would think this is referring to women, however the growing number of middle-age men in the company is no picnic. Their shallow and fragile egos are easily shattered by the strong abilities of their female colleagues. Management won't do anything about it because - well they are hired or promoted to be the management and given the opportunities to bully those who will not bow down and kiss their feet. There are a lot of meetings - which are just avenues to get visibility to top management. One director once boasts that a hire was made for the purpose of attending meetings. The more meetings that you attend, the better visibility you have that you are doing something great. However nothing ever gets accomplished - it's just a forum to talk and theorize on what could be with no one stepping up to execute. As long as you are long winded, can talk in circles and put it all in a presentation, you are golden. When failure does surface, the directors will assemble a small team meeting for "postmortem review" aka "let find who we should blame this on!" Somehow 'accountability" never made it on the Kendo Kredos. I believe in lead by example - which is some of the issues at Kendo. Some examples - googling random video during work to pass time for the purpose of making another insensitive "joke", making promise of promotions that will not come to fruition, do what you need to get the "fat bonus" (as stated in a director's review), putting other team down, etc. These are not leader qualities! Some of the directors in operation lack the basic experience and knowledge to manage what they have been hired to grow and develop. In turn they hire those of the same caliber or lower to ensure constant stroking of their egos. The operations will still run because there is still just a handful of individuals taking the grunt of the work. The effects of operational failure will only show months after the competent ones have left.
