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An average company to work for. Just average. - Software Engineer Kony Employee Review

1.0
Mar 22, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

You may get a decent hike when joining the company. Kony is struggling to attract talent, so they are willing to pay a decent hike (one time hike only!) when you join. So make sure you negotiate properly with the HR and demand a very big hike before joining. Freshers in platform team may learn something new. Company is expanding. So there maybe good opportunities for Business analysts and marketing folks.

Cons

Kony is not a start-up anymore. So all the advantages of a start-up are gone. Kony is not an established company either. So there is no process in place. Basically, Kony is a company of semi-talented engineers mostly doing UI work. Its basically a 99% UI company....NOT a mobile company. Only the platform team (100 odd people) work on the actual mobile phone (mostly writing wrappers, they don't do app development). Everyone from associate engineer to architect is mostly involved in margin, padding, button, label etc. There are 0 hikes after you join. Worst canteen in the whole world. Even worse than hostel food. No transportation facilities. Avoid this company if you can. Don't get carried away with the initial salary raise. There is more to a job than money. Avoid this company specially if you are already working in a big organization (cognizant, IBM, Microsoft etc). Don't get tempted by the pay hike or the idea of working for a small company (i.e idea of getting more responsibilities) . Its not worth leaving a big established firm and joining Kony.

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5.0
Aug 30, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

1) Great base salaries 2) Amazing group of talented folks 3) Great tools and technology stack 4) Diverse portfolio of industry verticals to choose as your workstream 5) Room to grow in your career path

Cons

1) Low contribution from the company on 401-K

2.0
Feb 5, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The employees are great. Most people are very smart and passionate about what they do. In the time I was there I never had any problem working with anyone in the company. Always someone to go to lunch with and lots of staff drinks after work (mostly organized by staff and not management) Good flexibility for work-life balance...for some people

Cons

- Disorganized. - Not diverse. - No support for career advancement/training/certification/education - Totally inconsistent with a lack of focus. Strategic direction seems to change every 6 months and it never makes complete sense. - Leadership is tone deaf to the market and is not willing to adapt. Stubbornness is why nothing is selling and the company is falling apart. - Top Leadership doesn't engage with employees unless they feel like they have to. - HR is beyond useless and gossips about EVERYONE. There is no confidentiality in HR. - Lots of recent turnover with long time employees because of messed up operations and managers egos. - LOTS of people have left to go work for the founder of Kony at his new company, or they left to go back to their old jobs. - TERRIBLE operations. Travel policy is crazy!!! Some people can't afford to come out of pocekt and be reimbursed for almost everything. $7k in expenses for travel is ridiculous!

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