Kiva reviews

4.2

95% would recommend to a friend

(110 total reviews)
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Vishal Ghotge

100% approve of CEO

60% positive business outlook

Kiva has an employee rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars, based on 110 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Kiva employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Financial Services industry (3.7 stars).

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110 reviews
4.0
Aug 29, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Interesting and well-traveled people from many interesting working backgrounds coming together to do good in the non-profit micro-finance space.

Cons

The CEO is moving the org in a direction away from the original mission and this (among other things) has already caused many people including myself to leave the org. Senior management has been re-org'd multiple times and still struggles.

5.0
Feb 11, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- doing good for the world - leading edge technology pioneer - brilliant employees - international scope to everything that you do - talent is rewarded & recognized

Cons

- as a non profit, the salaries are a bit under market - benefits are great if you're single, but not so much if you're married - mission district location has its pluses & minuses

1.0
Jan 2, 2020

Warped leadership

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

a) Great opportunity and platform to address deep poverty and inequality issues around the world; b) Committed,long-serving and knowledgeable staff (who unfortunately are leaving at a fast rate); c) High credibility with funders

Cons

a) Cocky executive leadership and spreading to some sycophants in the senior cadres; b) Sycophancy and boot-licking seems to be the way to remain in the organization; c) No commitment to several of the so called core values e.g. inclusion,equity and diversity manifested in "hidden" racialism and clear discrimination of certain people groups from ascending beyond certain levels in the organization. Other wise how do you explain somebody having worked for ten years but has only risen one step beyond the entry level yet has not been rated poorly in performance or even been suspended if s/he is that bad yet their bosses are persons who joined at much lower levels? c) Very inhumane HR practices where one can be dismissed at the whims of their manager for just being disliked; d) Poorly trained and equipped senior leadership/management staff : they anyway have ascended there through politics and boot-licking; e) Hypocritical leadership - the same person who has responded to some of the posts here claiming how deeply she cares about the people and the organization left after slightly below a year after literally wrecking havoc on long-serving staff through a high-handed approach in leadership...It wont be long after when other members of the Executive Leadership Team will not be sure what was the goal for all the changes they have brought about!

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Kiva Response
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Thank you so much for your feedback. We are doing our best to change the culture of Kiva and I am happy to share this with senior leadership.
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