Pros
- they spare no expense on company events
Cons
- Genome is their big brother tool where they monitor every minute of your time(mandatory minimum of 8hrs). At the end of the day you have to record how you spend all your minutes, that's right, all your minutes of the day on what you did on what, with detailed notes. The program shows up where you are at all times and it can be viewed by anyone in the company. People will know where you are and what you are doing at all times whether you are getting a coffee or taking a washroom break. The upper management ( SLT -senior leadership team) will talk very highly of genome and how it helps and coaches you yada yada, but at the end of the day, it's nothing more but a powerful micromanagement tool for leverage against you. You've been warned! - Be prepared to deal with bureaucracy by kissing up a lot and then be prepared to kiss up even more after that. Middle and upper management will shorten your life there if you don't play ball. Period! I've seen many people get let go because they simply cared about getting work done rather than do both. You are being misguided if you think you will be able to speak freely and express your ideas, unless they have been pre-approved beforehand. *There is a reason why they have so many job postings but their employee count stays the same. If you don't play politics, and play it well, you won't last. - Highest turn over I have ever seen in +15 years of my professional career, starting from project managers(be aware) to media. - My biggest turn off is that every week or so all the upper management meets where they start pointing fingers at each other and of course my point above, someone will have to be let go. Genome has created and fostered this environment where all departments are spread out in silos. They don't work together because they don't take ownership and responsibility of projects of the fear it might bite them back later on. The entire organization is divided in silos to which they fight one another for more billable hours and less accountability. - You will never be able to express yourself creatively and intelligently because genome won't allow you to. Keep in mind that every minute your spend there has to be billed to the client. Let say that you want to create a new more efficient and intelligent way to solve a problem, but first you have to do some research and estimated the feasibility of the task. You won't! This is because it doesn't align with the scope of the project so genome will reject your time spent on this. Unless the client pays for it, you don't have the freedom to spend your time on improving your productivity creatively and intelligently. Genome will kill innovation and creativity at its source by punishing freedom of thought - They are much more like a cult. If you dare not to participate in one of their outings or scream your lungs out on how great the company and their CEO is, you will get fired. You will see this across all their outside media for example their new decoded book. We are forced indirectly to buy and promote the book to our friends and family, and most awkwardly post positive reviews on store fronts like amazon. Want proof? Check out their Canadian amazon reviews, it's all 5 star reviews and surprisingly everyone there works at klick. - You will work long hours and it is expected. Hence their lavish parties and gifts. - They lack innovation. Surprisingly I have yet to see an ROI analysis to be delivered to their clients. That's right, they have never done an ROI analysis and will crush you if you even bring it up at a social gathering. - They will never ever spend money on training or investing in their people. Not on even their developers, sometimes they even lack the adequate tools to do a full job. If you are a preferred candidate for a job here, before you make a decision, I would HIGHLY recommend that you ask them to interview one of their employees by picking someone randomly in a transparent process. If they are so "forward thinking", don't you think they would oblige to such request?