Pros
Good pay, above market average, standard benefits packages. Working with talented and amazing colleagues (the people are not the problem)
Cons
I don’t even know where to start.
I feel unhappy, angry, and broken. I’ve always been a top performer in my previous companies and I’m still performing at a high level here at Kraken. But this toxic environment is destroying me. It’s damaged my mental health, ruined parts of my personal life, and turned me from a happy person into someone deeply depressed.
There is no real culture or genuine care for employees. It’s all a show to look good in public before the IPO. In my previous company, leadership training taught us how to care for and support our people. Here, I doubt most managers have had any training or even basic moral responsibility. Everything is transactional. They don’t care about employees as people.
Targets are set aggressively without logic, and leaders are often clueless about the real product or projects they’re responsible for. If a project starts going in the wrong direction, managers immediately look for someone to blame instead of taking accountability themselves. There’s no recognition for hard or late work, except for a few big rewards to gain public recognition in the industry.
Meanwhile, the constant chaos and repeated redundancies speak volumes about the reality here.
The truth is, the employees themselves are great. But the majority are unhappy and indirectly talking about the toxic environment and most stay only because the pay is higher than the market average.
I honestly regret leaving my previous job. Here, as a person, you have zero value. If you’re considering a role here, please read other reviews carefully. I wished that I was taking them seriously.
Many of the “positive” ones are written right after someone gets hired, while they’re still in the honeymoon phase. Recruiters are great at selling the dream. The onboarding team is professional, warm and welcoming. But the reality hits fast. New hires are encouraged to post Glassdoor reviews early on to bury the negative ones that come later.
The strategy here is simple: do whatever it takes to show big numbers before IPO. No long-term plan. Constant last-minute orders from leaderships who suddenly decide they want something, just more demands.
