Avis sur Kiwi.com

Avantages

When I came to Kiwi.com, everything was really great. But in last two months after GA acquisition it's going worse and worse. - nice benefits - mac, phone, multisport

Inconvénients

- Two main bosses in Prague were fired in one day for no specific reason (or nobody knows it). They started office in Prague and everybody liked them a lot. - Many people are leaving (also because of ^^^) - I asked to buy conference ticket 5 months ago and right not it's sold out and I still don't have a ticket or any info - It used to be additional salaries every quarter, but it will be probably cancelled from... GA acquisition

Conseils à la direction

Dear management, if you don't want to start exodus of the developers, you should start to take care of them. Everything in Prague's office was totally fine just 1-2 months ago and right now the mood in the office is totally different. Please don't let it happen.

Avantages

Really energetic environment, top professionals and awesome culture.

Inconvénients

Sometimes different teams don’t communicate properly.

Avantages

Very interesting product. Cutting edge technologies. Freedom. Friendship. Fun.

Inconvénients

Poor organization structure and leadership. Unknown carrier path.

Avantages

- Guarantee service - Work environment - Opportunities within the company

Inconvénients

- Salary and incentives - Processes and updates - Not clear communication between departments

Avantages

Salary Company laptop and phone Flexible working hours Friendly management Possibility of promotions and self-development Dog-friendly

Inconvénients

Sometimes there is no policy and no official guidance, the strategy might change often and that creates chaos

Avantages

Nothing anymore. Maybe still some nice people.

Inconvénients

Unclear vision and strategy, launching useless projects without asking experts and calling it later “failing fast”. If you’re not friends with the right people and won’t say “yes” to everything what they want, don’t expect too much. The company is just acting chaotic and then panicking about financial results, without caring for people, culture and work-life balance. Kiwi is promoting wrong people to higher... positions, accepting their behaviour like bullying people, making jokes of others, being rude, unprofessional and two-faced. No one cares about ESAT, feedback or promoting good leaders. You can be fired anytime, your position might be cancelled, your development plans zeroed and - who needs learning and development? Kiwi doesn’t. Who needs good, experienced leaders? Not Kiwi. Today you’re here, tomorrow not anymore. Decisions are made from one day to another, no one knows, what will happen next - no one considers if you have a family and are willing to travel for weeks - they can tell you on Monday, that you're travelling on Friday. Everyone is afraid to speak in meetings and some people will do everything to please the most powerful people. If you think Kiwi will allow you to learn, do mistakes and improve, you’re wrong. The company doesn’t respect its own people. CEO is getting drunk on the company parties or coming with heavy hangover to the office. This is probably leading by example. People are being fired because Kiwi needs to improve the financial results, or someone very important didn’t like them - don't expect any transparency in communication. No money for learning, no money for vacation (just 4 weeks), no development support, no support even from the higher management, as they’re just immune towards authentic leadership. Most of the C-Level and Directors are just arrogant people in darkness. A bunch of ignorants, that cares only about their salaries and prestige. If you consider joining Kiwi, don’t do it - stay away from this toxic environment.

Conseils à la direction

Kiwi Management destroyed once funny environment and happy, creative people and transformed it into a culture of fear and mobbing.

Avantages

- really experienced and motivated people - contributing to open-source - using modern technologies - projects which make sense - nice benefits (laptop, phone, multisport, breakfasts, fruits...) - good salary - Prague's office feels like a startup (Michal and Martin who lead Prague office are really capable) - internal workshops, team buildings and lot of beer

Inconvénients

- bad coffee (people have to buy their own coffee beans and coffee machines because they don't like the official ones) - bureaucracy (sometimes you can feel that kiwi.com is also a big corporation, e. g. super slow and ineffective conference approvals - you have to wait months for the tickets and usually they are sold out or prices are doubled) - HR (hiring process took 4 weeks and sometimes I didn't know what's... happening. Also my friends who wanted to join kiwi had similar experience)

Conseils à la direction

Try to focus on those cons and company will be awesome

Avantages

Dog-friendly office, creative and young colleagues.

Inconvénients

Kiwi can't keep up with the growth and corporate life. Top management reminds about good start-up days but these passed a long time ago. Also, the buzz word in the company is transparency, however, management hides reasons why some people are gone during the same day. Developers seem to have a sweet life, all others struggle though.

Conseils à la direction

Care less about your chair but more about people under you. Don't forget that it's not only about money but also people that work for you, people who lose faith in the company you try to desperately save by yourself.