9/10 would recommend - Anonymous employee Kalinax Employee Review

5.0
Oct 11, 2021
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Kalinax was like a home to me at the start of my career. Being part of a young and vibrant team led by the idea of making an impact, everyday was a learning experience. The company treats its clients as part of the team. They give every client the time and effort needed to ensure optimal benefit and return on investment. The only person or client I would not recommend this company to is someone who is not willing to work or be part of a fast-paced environment.

Cons

None that I can think of.

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Pros

This opportunity ideally would have been a perfect to get hands-on experience in consulting and solving business problems using Data Science. That was why I applied in the first place.

Cons

I was given a 1 month's trial for the first month of the job so that owner can first assess my work before offering me the job for the rest of the tenure of the internship position. The owner was initially impressed with my work during the interview. I was assigned a project during the trial month. During the calls, the owner would go on for an hour about what to do but does not properly give the structure on what was actually required or what needs to be delivered. I submitted whatever I understood the owner required. In the following call, the owner would keep repeating the same thing over and over again about referring to some of the materials provided. But the materials provided do not contain sufficient information on what needs to be done. I requested a follow-up call numerous times in order to review the material together so that I can get a clear idea of what the owner needed to complete the project. By the time I had completed around 10-14 days of working on the project, the owner had just completely stopped responding to my emails or texts. This person just went completely AWOL. No communication, nothing. I needed the experience and the wage that was promised to me. I am really saddened by how this person treated me and just abandoned me halfway through the internship. The opportunity would have really helped me gain some good insights and experience for working within the DS industry. Not to mention the promised wage. But alas, I got scammed. I got tired of waiting to hear back from this person for over a month. Hence, I am writing this review. It would be best for future people to just stay away from this person and the company. It is not worth it. There is absolutely no clarity at all on what this person requires and this person behaves disrespectfully by not responding to your queries or emails.

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Kalinax Response
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Hello - we would like to thank you for the time taken to review your trial. As you have been informed by email on October 3, your trial performance was paused and went under review (which has not been complete as of today, October 24). We understand that you were looking for an urgent or fast-track (hire) decision but our trials are carefully reviewed by the team. We have never claimed a fast-track performance/hire decision was to be expected. As the readers of your review might have noted, during the trials, we are looking for applicants who fit in our company, who value our team members, who do not dismiss our way of working and the time of our colleagues (we are sorry our feedback was so annoying to you), we are looking for people who are able to accept feedback and act on it, who do not demand instant answers while ignoring feedback and requests. Thank you for recognizing that you did receive a lot of feedback over your trial period calls. Unfortunately, as you explain further, even after more than 2 hours of calls with our team you did not understand very well what actions were expected of you. This is totally OK. This is what a trial month is for - to see how well (or not) we work together. This goes both ways. The trial gives us and you the opportunity to assess our fit. It is against our policy to discuss performance during an ongoing review, thus your latest request to have additional calls while the trial period review is ongoing could not be met with the expected urgency and can only be answered after the review is complete. We would like to point out that you were benefiting from our policy to be compensated for the test projects and assessment exercises during the trial. Many companies do not pay for the time during assessment stages but it was our decision to offer compensation even though we ask for no minimum commitment. The trial month also explicitly allowed you to keep all other commitments (that during your interview you assured us you had). The general feedback we receive is that our compensation approach for the trials is fair and we are sorry to see that you considered this a wage that you were subscribed for. You can send a message to people@kalinax.com to understand what is the expected day for the one-time compensation for the trial period to be processed. This payment is a one-off and not a salary/wage that you should expect going forward. Regarding your claim that you our company scammed you, we sincerely hope that you did not mean it. We remain here and on people@ for any further clarifications. Thank you again for sharing your experience.
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