XKL reviews

2.1

35% would recommend to a friend

(33 total reviews)

Leonard Bosack

59% approve of CEO

15% positive business outlook

XKL has an employee rating of 2.1 out of 5 stars, based on 33 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The XKL employee rating is 45% below average for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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33 reviews
1.0
Aug 13, 2013

Time to reboot and upgrade

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Opportunities to roll up sleeves and do interesting work. Decent health benefits. Some good people are still here. Good start out pay. Good sized teams and quality team mates.

Cons

Too much burueocracy for a small 30 person company. Management is out of touch with reality and deluded about their ability to lead us to success. Operations is more concerned with fighting other departments for control and going on daily power trips instead of doing real work that could help the company be successful. I have never experienced such a disfunctional place where people are rewarded and promoted only if they are blood relatives with the head of operations and if they focus only on punching the clock with no regard for doing any productive work. Causing terminal delays for engineering and sales seems to be the company goal and fostering a spiteful gossipy workplace seems to be the highest priority of the current management team.

1.0
Sep 30, 2015

Draconian rules before revenue

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Interesting technology that unfortunately is not able to be commoditized due to restrictive and subjective internal processes and procedures CEO with vision and passion for his technology First line employees (mostly) who are dedicated and hard working in spite of their respective management

Cons

Unqualified and inexperienced mid and senior level management individuals Unnecessary and performance limiting processes and procedures driven by people unqualified to manage or lead others More focus on internal tracking of irrelevant things than on revenue producing activities Too many outdated and draconian rules, policies and procedures to ensure job security for only those in operations Absolutely no business acumen or real world successful business experience within senior or mid level mgmt Zero executive leadership by current full time position holder Salaries and benefits are not competitive within the industry Not focused on customers or creating sales

1.0
Mar 18, 2015

trying to find a new job

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

work-life balance, free snacks and coffee

Cons

very low pay, zero benefits, no stock options, no vision, zero sales

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