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3.7

66% would recommend to a friend

(339 total reviews)
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Charles G. Koch and Dave Robertson

80% approve of CEO

64% positive business outlook

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2.0
Aug 1, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Brand name. KGI, the parent company of KSPS is a stable company with high moral values. They are systematic in their approach to day-to-day business development and moral direction of each company.

Cons

Unlike KGI, KSPS offers lower than average compensation commensurate with responsibilities. By design, KSPS upper management leverages the KGI benefits (pension, 401K, etc.) in order to pay their sales personnel below the market average. While this offers a temporary positive impact on the bottom line reported to KGI, the long term negative impact to the bottom line outweighs any immediate gains due to employee apathy, which severely impacts opportunity costs.

2.0
Jul 29, 2015

Micromanagement is starting to hurt this place

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Good salary and Great Team work, if you have live/work according the the MBM principles then its a great culture

Cons

Management seem to be move more and more towards micromanagement which gets old fast. Also manager are always moving around and changing roles therefore management can never figure out of to fix the problems that need attention. Also Every Koch company that relies on KBS hates KBS so you get non stop customer rudeness. Also don't expect a promotion unless you look to apply to another department.

3.0
Jul 20, 2015

Not sure I would go back

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Lots of good people that you work with. If you have the right manager, no micro-management, overall Koch Industries is a great company to work for. Being the IT hub for the other Koch companies, there are a lot of opportunities to get in to new areas of knowledge.

Cons

KBS has a hard time following the KII Guiding Principles, especially when it comes to compensations practices. Has no problems overworking employees and letting them burn out, and not compensating accordingly. Bonuses are nearly non-existent, raises very minimal. If you are specialized in new emerging technologies, definitely be prepared to NOT be compensated accordingly. They have NO idea how to compensate, so will rate you against irrelevant job roles. After 10 years working for KBS, I have NO IDEA where KBS comes up with their compensation scale, because it is not in line with market, or is on the LOW end. One shouldn't have to have an offer from another company (internally or externally) in hand for them to 'miraculously' find that your value is worth THOUSANDS more than what they are currently paying. We are not dumb, we know what our job pays elsewhere, we know when we're being screwed.

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