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2.0
10 Apr 2018

Great Work, Poor Company

Anonymous employee
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Pros

- The industry is amazing. It's fun to work at a start up that's spearheading a new way to do Real Estate. - Amazing peers and colleagues! I have met some truly wonderful people working here.

Cons

- Communication is terrible. Every single department is on a different page and many people don't even know what we offer. - Pay rates are sub-par, made lower still by having to work around the clock and on weekends due to understaffing issues. People are asked to fill in for positions above their own for long periods of time and are not offered any additional compensation or bonuses. - Recognition for hard work is hard to come by. - Mgmt positions are filled from outside rather than within. - Poor decision making on new managers. We've had more than one manager come on and treat the existing team poorly. - Low culture in the company. What few events we do have come more from a source of someone saying "we need to have some sort of event, throw a happy hour on the calendar" rather than a genuine vibe that's set from the top and carries throughout. It's clearly not a priority.

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Knotel Response
8y
Thanks for your review. We also love the people at Knotel and think it's one of the things that makes this such a great company! Typical of growing companies, we are constantly working to improve and communication, recognition, and culture are all top of mind for us as an organization. If you have further suggestions related to our culture, please don't hesitate to email the People Ops team.
5.0
21 Apr 2019
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Pros

While the business is growing at an incredible pace, the company is still agile enough to feel like a small team that accomplishes new things every day. Inside the company, you meet and work with people from a very wide set of backgrounds and professions, and get to learn about various aspects of real estate investments, design, construction, sales, asset management. It never gets boring.

Cons

The company still has some growing pains of establishing good communication between HQ and local offices and sharing vision and plans across the Org. However, in the couple months, I've been here, improvements have been made and leadership is making a visible effort to hear the feedback from across the company.

2.0
12 May 2020

Avoid Company

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Pros

Flexibility and some people are nice

Cons

Chaos, no leadership, no cohesiveness or communication between teams

1.0
22 Jan 2019

Dysfunction Junction

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Lots of good, smart well-intentioned people at the company.

Cons

Lack of focus, inability to scale, poor internal communication, rewarding of bad behavior on the part of (certain) managers.

5.0
9 Jan 2019

Manager

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Pros

Fun, exciting, fast-paced work environment where each individual contributes to the company's success

Cons

Processes are not defined and workflow can be messy, communication is lacking between departments.

5.0
18 Oct 2019
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Pros

Flexibility and teamwork. The entire office works together to one end goal and without banding around too many platitudes on the culture, it is truly a great team to work with.

Cons

No open and clear career progression. There's a current lack of clear and obvious ways to progress. It's a fast-growing company so opportunities will always arise. However, communication on how to do so is severely lacking. It's also rare you get told of roles that are open that you're able to apply for rather than hiring externally.

4.0
10 May 2018

Enormous energy and opportunity, bumpy ride

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Knotel has a business model and magnetism for real, experienced and highly motivated talent that is snowballing the company fast toward avalanche status. Like change and innovation? It happens every day at Knotel. Like leadership with a vision and a "take no prisoners" attitude? It's real.

Cons

The company is fast outgrowing the boys club and skunkworks practices that served as its foundation for the first two years. Change is swift and communication is scant - an uneven culture and experience of the organization has emerged for employees as a result. Moving at such high speed, this can feel like a careening ride through the jungle in the pitch dark, on an overcrowded bus with no seatbelts or ac.

1.0
30 Nov 2019

Just another WEWORK!

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Pros

Fast Paced Startup environment.

Cons

Terrible internal communication. Management focuses mostly on board and investor presentation decks than they do their own employees growth. No clear future direction. Underwhelming benefits. Weak equity plan. Terrible management leadership.

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Knotel Response
6y
Thank you for taking time to review Knotel. Being in a fast paced startup environment, there are a few things we are continuing to work on and improve. Internal communications, benefits, equity plan, and a better way to communicate future direction and leadership messaging. In the past few weeks, we've re-designed our newsletter, launched a new Intranet, and communicated a clear strategy for our future. We pride ourselves in our people and their skills and look forward to growing as a company in the future.
5.0
10 Jun 2019
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Pros

- Explosive growth! Exciting time to be here! -Autonomy to own your work -Flexible office product that is disrupting the Commercial Real Estate industry -Smart, hardworking, funny coworkers -Good access to C-level and senior leadership -Plenty of fun social events -Flexible work from home policy -Flexible vacation

Cons

- A growing startup can mean ambiguity, not for everyone -Communication between departments and from the top down can be better - Longer hours (typical of company at this stage)

5.0
13 Jun 2019

Collaborative and Inclusive

Anonymous employee
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Pros

No idea is dismissed. No matter how little and simple or huge and complex, there is always someone to listen, bounce ideas off of and help me improve on it until it’s ready to come to fruition.

Cons

Inconsistency in communication. Things move very quickly and I don’t think the lack of communication is purposeful but simply because things move and change so quickly. It’d still be nice to have more real time information

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