39% positive business outlook
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.
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.
Pros
Flexibility and some people are nice
Cons
Chaos, no leadership, no cohesiveness or communication between teams
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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)
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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