XKL reviews

Day to day management is thoroughly incompetent, lacks any experience running a “for profit” business, only hires relatives (who are even more inexperienced and unintelligent!), shows complete lack of respect for any position responsible for producing revenue and refuses to comprehend and implement basic internal structures that are required to support an actual sales force. This is not a place to work if you value your reputation, it’s a resume killer. There haven’t been enough sales in the past 5 years to even come close to covering the operating costs of a single year. We won’t be able to hire quality or successful sales people with the current management and operating processes and procedures in place.

Just as many reviews before this have echoed, there is a huge problem with nepotism at this company which extends to the top of the ladder. These really are the only people that get perks. During my time at the company, there were easily double digit numbers of contractors hired and fired and the problem was almost never the contractors. Several of them were scolded or even yelled at for various reasons in front of other employees. Everyone not in the inner circle is viewed as an expendable and easily replaceable even though the technology is so obscure and niche it takes years to understand. Most product decisions are guided by the CEOs wishes even when all technical staff agree otherwise. The company tries to promote itself as a startup, but unlike most startups that don't make money this one somehow keeps lurching along. There have been waves of layoffs and firings even among technical staff. These were unwarranted but justified because upper management heard there were some people looking for other opportunities. People are unhappy at XKL because of the Big Brother atmosphere and constant reminder that nobody is trusted whatsoever. Threatening emails sent to the entire staff make certain nobody forgets it. Salaries significantly lag behind most other Seattle based companies and don't even begin to approach the averages. There is a paranoia for intellectual property security at this company which means no employee is trusted using any storage websites or even using a flash drive at their desk. This extends to any cloud based technological tools as well. Want to utilize the WiFi to save on your data plan while at work? Think again that's a security threat. The extent that the company guidelines are written to protect the company against its own staff is bewildering. Accomplishments are rarely recognized, but management is quick to point out failures.