Churn em and burn em - Anonymous employee Kahoa Employee Review

We're sorry your experience with us has fallen short of your expectations. We invite you to make your concerns known to your manager. We're always open to correction. We'd be remiss however if we didn't address what amounts to inaccurate statements and outright lies here. Do we frequently let people go? Nope! We have, on occasion, let people go due to performance issues, but it happens rarely. The notion that people are somehow shocked and surprised (or fired for dubious reasons) when they're let go is silly. We always give our employees the benefit of the doubt and notify them of performance issues (repeatedly) before letting anyone go. In most cases, they're invited to reapply once they gain more experience. Do we coerce employees to write Glassdoor reviews? Nope! We don't waste our time making calculated efforts to monitor who is leaving reviews. We simply invite our employees to leave an honest review. If we get a negative review, then so be it. We will, however, respond to reviews that are blatantly false. Such is the case here. Do we have a timeframe for learning for new employees? Mostly true. We expect all our employees to hit the ground running with short ramp up timeframes. Because we only hire mid and senior-level technology professionals, we have the reasonable expectation that new employees comes ready to do the job we hired them for. Management is expected to provide mentorship and support to employees, not teach the basics for how to do the job. Are the health benefits & pay poor? Hardly! We're not Google, but we pay competitive wages and provide a competitive benefits package. We do use a 3rd party company for HR compliance and benefits. They have proven to be helpful, responsive and provide our employees an unbiased 3rd party opinion. Do we offer regular raises and evaluations? As with most companies, we conduct annual reviews. We have never promised 3 evaluations a year, but our employees are eligible for and receive yearly raises. Is management qualified? Well...none of us are career managers, we are just people who love to build technology. I am sure we could be better managers, but we are always striving to learn and support our teams better. Also, we take lunch really seriously here, so making sure we have a plan for eating lunch seems like a valuable skill.