Staff poorly led by poor MD and struggling to produce anything of quality - Anonymous employee Kuato Employee Review

2.0
Feb 16, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Started with a great opportunity and enormous potential to create truly inspiring learning products. There are some very talented staff that are good to work with.

Cons

Have never achieved product / market fit and continued to churn out over-marketed, subpar products. The MD is single biggest problem with the company - "games industry experience" translates to aggressive management that stifles creativity.

Kuato Response
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Thank you for taking the time to write a review, we appreciate all the feedback we receive. While we are pleased that you have found the team to be talented, I am disappointed that I could not provide an environment in which you could flourish. I strive to build a creative team environment to which I encourage everyone in the studio to contribute and I’m sorry that that did not live up to your expectations. I am extremely passionate about my studio and the industry and I am pleased to say that a couple of years on from your review, we are working on some amazing learning games with a happy and fulfilled team.

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