Unhealthy environment for people trying to bring change and innovation. - HRIS KAYAK Employee Review

1.0
Oct 2, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

The location is convenient to mass transportation and the perks are good.

Cons

The culture is toxic. Especially for new people joining. The HR team is the biggest road block to change and they say ‘no’ to everything we ask. They even exclude new people on their own team from contributing. It’s ‘our way’ or get out. They hire to hire but don’t want new ideas. They just want to say they brought in diversity but they shut out the new hr managers with new ideas. It’s a scapegoat environment and anyone who tries to improve the environment is viewed as a problem.

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Cons

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Pros

Great benefits: Healthcare had great coverage and affordable monthly payments. I also really appreciated the work-from-wherever policy as well as all the office snacks. Fantastic people: I genuinely loved the people I worked with—they made me feel like I belonged and was appreciated. My manager worked to build me up, something that can't be said for a lot of places. Travel perks: The ability to travel for work made this experience incredibly rewarding.

Cons

Slow mobility: Trying to get promoted felt like a moving goalpost—the expectations changed every six months and made it nearly impossible to get to the next step. Even then, the business was stingy about who gets promoted, which was incredibly discouraging after years of trying to prove myself.

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