Great place to work and grow - Senior Software Engineer Kizen Employee Review

5.0
11 Oct 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Helpful teammates - Challenging tasks - Higher Management open for suggestions - Good salary - Open for remote work / diversity - Generous PTO

Cons

- No extra benefit / HMO / workstation, etc. (at least for me)

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5.0
27 Apr 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Excellent place to learn and grow due to high-ownership culture - Smart, collaborative colleagues - Product is really flexible - Cash compensation & office are great - Encouraged to bring new ideas and take initiative to improve things

Cons

- Some growing pains due to recent influx of new hires and people figuring out how to work together - org chart can be unclear - Some benefits lacking, but mostly made up for by pay - flexible product makes GTM positioning difficult

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1.0
9 Mar 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Individual contributors are thoughtful, capable, and supportive of one another. - Peer relationships are strong and often the only stabilizing force in the organization.

Cons

- Executive leadership frequently speaks critically about employees and customers in internal settings, and comments about who is or is not suited to succeed in the company are expressed in ways that undermine a professional and inclusive culture. - Technical pushback is often dismissed rather than evaluated. Engineers who attempt to introduce guardrails or best practices are talked down to by leadership instead of engaged constructively. - Leadership makes promises to customers without confirmed feasibility and then blame shifts to customers instead of taking any amount of responsibility. - When customers encounter difficulty using the platform, the response from leadership is to scrutinize the customer’s competence rather than examine usability gaps, workflow design, or missing guardrails within the product itself. - The company markets multiple “products,” but these are largely configurations of the same underlying platform rather than distinct, fully developed offerings, causing the systems to be extremely brittle where small configuration changes create cascading instability. - The platform is positioned as AI-driven and enterprise-ready; however, core functionality is fragile does not reflect enterprise standards. - Turnover is extraordinarily high, with frequent departures and abrupt terminations that create ongoing instability and loss of institutional knowledge.

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