Pros
Some departments have friendly co workers.
Cons
If you dream of being in jail, Kiss Products is the place for you. The office is located in the middle of nowhere, making it near impossible to access easily by car. The majority of the Korean employees are provided with a transportation service for free from the train station. But if you have to drive to work, forget it. Kiss recently fazed out their hybrid work schedule, which is why a majority of the new hires agreed to work there in the first place. Kiss does not care about your time, family, finances, or mental wellbeing. Kiss assigns you a lunch time. Yes you heard that right. You are told when you have to eat lunch. And they give you only a half hour. Since the office is located in the middle of nowhere, you have no choice but to sit in the cafeteria like a bunch of livestock. You aren’t even allowed to eat at your desk. They do provide free food, but it is very unhealthy and the quality is not consistent. They also throw out a lot of leftover food daily, which shows how little they care about people outside of the higher up corporate bubble. The CEO is literally served lunch on a gold platter in front of the entire cafeteria. You are expected to bow down to the CEO whenever he walks past you. They recently implemented a new policy where if you have COVID, you are required to use PTO when they hardly offer any to begin with. Sounds illegal. Back when the pandemic was running rampant, the CEO and COO basically forced employees to come to the office to work because Kiss was a “necessary” business. Kiss decided to sell hand sanitizer during the pandemic to become a “necessary business” so while New York State made it illegal to work in a non essential business, Kiss found a work around and forced their employees to work in unsafe conditions. They come out with ridiculous protocols every couple of weeks. Very dated protocols that are not American working standards. The company is predominately Korean, and they are treated above anyone else. There is very little diversity at Kiss, and the Koreans will talk badly about you in another language right in front of your face. Rather than giving their employees generous raises and benefits in 2024 (they used to be generous) they threw the CEO a birthday party that was tens of thousands of dollars. If you did not go, you were judged and looked down on. Turns out it snowed that night so some people who did RSVP could not go due to unsafe driving conditions. HR did not care and was sure to reprimand these employees the next day. How dare they! They canceled the 2023 holiday party, and gifted the staff hot sauce for the holidays. Spare me. The company is now restructuring and senior employees who have been there for years are now quitting or being phased out because of the restructuring. Conveniently, none of them are Korean. Unless you are absolutely desperate or looking for a a work visa, do not work here. You will be worked into the ground and left with an expensive therapy bill that kiss will not care about. The company is also suffering financially big time…with greed and power comes failure.