Good tech, smart people, worst place I’ve ever worked - Anonymous employee Keywee Employee Review

1.0
20 Jun 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Technology is innovative and gives strong results that keep clients coming back.

Cons

It’s clear that the positive reviews were made or encouraged by upward management (even the language sounds like the CEO). Low compensation compared to other companies. They do not invest time or effort into employee satisfaction. Very “burn and churn” environment. Not a single person I know received their full bonus because the goals set up are unrealistic based on accounts assigned and managed. Work - life balance is non-existent. It’s all about putting in long hours, and you feel the tension in the room when you leave any time before 7 pm (after a strict and required 8:30 am, latest, start) — people in management would purposefully not say goodbye back to you if you left “early”. Taking vacation and sicks days is uncomfortable due to lack of flexibility. Little to no training plan, and everyone’s too busy to train properly. Technology could be improved to be less manual. Very judgmental and inflexible management (aside from 1 person). Also, everyone is micro-managed and the smallest mistakes are blown out of proportion and you’re met with aggressiveness vs. a shared goal of fixing the problem and ensuring it didn’t happen again in the future. The canned response about “growing together” that I am sure I’ll also receive for this negative review is also not believable as they don’t care about their employees and upward management dictates your every move vs. allowing you to grow, learn, think and make any sort of real decisions for yourself related to your work, and even how you spend your free time (since working weekends and all nighters are not rare). Technology could be made less manual and more automatic.

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Keywee Response
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Thanks for taking the time to submit your feedback, we really appreciate it. Keywee is a young startup and as such, we have definitely made our share of mistakes and experienced growing pains along the way. In the past few months we listened hard to employee feedback, such as yours, and we’ve been making significant changes and improvements across the company to address issues like employee churn and work-life balance. We’re also getting better at communicating the challenges (and opportunities) of the Customer Success role to candidates during the interview process, so that expectations are clear from the get-go. Among the changes we made are substantial investment in people & culture. We hired a brand new People team (myself included), and are putting a lot of thought and effort into wellness programs, employee development, and management training. We also hired a new VP Finance, who’s improving our compensation, bonus structures, and goal setting processes. There are definitely growing pains, and I’m sorry to hear you were stuck in the middle of them. Thanks again for taking the time to submit your feedback, and if you have additional thoughts I’d love to connect offline - neri@keywee.co. Lastly, we’re glad to read about your assessment of Keywee’s product as innovative and valuable to our customers, which is something we pride ourselves on.

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