Kraken reviews

4.3

89% would recommend to a friend

(218 total reviews)

Amir Orad

90% approve of CEO

87% positive business outlook

Kraken has an employee rating of 4.3 out of 5 stars, based on 218 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Kraken employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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218 reviews
5.0
Jan 13, 2026

Good Work with Great People

Recommend
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Pros

- Incredibly meaningful work. - A truly impressive technology stack. Nothing's perfect, but we make tradeoffs deliberately and are always mindful of scalability and accumulating tech debt. - Reasonable workload given the opportunity space and the urgency of the mission. Better work-life balance than most tech. - Great people. By and large everyone is confident and dedicated, and the org structure can flex to accommodate folks taking on projects in areas that interest them.

Cons

- Very entrepreneurial, which can feel unstructured sometimes. Great fit for someone that's intrinsically motivated and can structure their own work, but may be a challenge for people that want a task list to execute. - Salaries are lower than tech, though higher than a lot of other mission-driven work. Management has acknowledged this and communicated plans to address it.

5.0
Dec 12, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Newhire here, extremely glad to have landed at Kraken. The company is genuinely driven by a desire to deliver the transition to a sustainable energy future. Does an amazing job of making employees genuinely empowered and accountable, in a blameless and humane setting, which gives people the authority to make themselves productive. Normally I'd consider that to be a Silicon Valley thing, but here at Kraken this has a bit of a British spin on it, being the company's history derives from the UK's Octopus Energy. The resulting mix slices through corporate politics with real talk and joviality. I just got out of one genuinely hilarious and inspirational optional all-hands which left others commenting "OMG It's my first week, does this happen every Friday???" In my department, clients (such as electrical utilities) love the way we're revolutionizing their businesses, including the way they treat their call center staff, humanizing them to become wide-ranging, informed and empowered problem solvers on behalf of their customers, instead of helpless automatons following scripts. Elsewhere, Kraken has tentacles in all kinds of sustainable tech, from sustainable generation, huge demand-flattening battery installations, domestic EV chargers, and smart meters. Business is booming, growth is spectacular, and huge markets still exist for the taking...

Cons

I'm a programmer. We have a big codebase. There is some tech debt. But show me a 2,000 person high growth company for which that isn't true. Everyone has a very sane attitude towards it. Not a biggie.

5.0
Dec 9, 2024

The Culture Is Real

Recommend
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Pros

The best company culture I've ever experienced.

Cons

None so far, only opportunities.

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