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Going down the drain...fast - Anonymous employee Kony Employee Review

2.0
Feb 5, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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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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5.0
Aug 30, 2019
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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

4.0
Nov 1, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Kony is a startup (8 years old) that is quickly maturing into a serious, process-driven global organization. This is a company extending its reach to the far corners of the globe, willing to spend the money needed to build a global organization and focused on leading in mobile development systems and tools. Kony is building amazing code, gaining significant partnerships around the world, and leads the industry in research and development funding into the future of mobile development. This is an exciting place to work. It means that at times there is frustration because decisions are tied across oceans, and plans need to include many partners and a lot of important future plans. This is definitely not a company that is treading water and idling in neutral. There is a very bright future here.

Cons

There are not very many cons here for me: executive management could be a little more communicative with employees; we could use a more structure around roadmaps and planning; but for the most part Kony as a company is trying as hard as it can to build employee awareness at the same time it builds markets, products and happy customers.

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