A broken product is met with a constant stream of denial instead of solutions - Anonymous employee Kazoo Employee Review

2.0
9 July 2021
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

They do a great job hiring. Met so many amazing, smart, talented people. Strong focus on D&I initiatives

Cons

The product is basically unusable. It is a patched together group of barely functioning features with such an endless series of major issues /bugs that nothing is ever fixed and the hole grows deeper by the day. Customers are completely disregarded once they…become customers and are confronted with the reality of attempting to implement and use a severely broken platform. The product team is celebrated by leadership in a feeble attempt to gaslight and deny reality. Thus creating a toxic culture and interfering with most employees’ ability to be successful in their roles at the most basic level. CS is expected to handle the fallout with no resources and no complaints (while being underpaid). The Sales team has tenured, talented reps who are expected to at best twist themselves into pretzels to evade basic questions about the reality of the product. At worst, the business puts them in a position to outright deceive customers with pieced together demos that make the product appear to actually work. The few performative attempts to acknowledge wellness and burnout felt absurd as leadership continued to ignore the root of the problem.

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Kazoo Response
4y
Thank you for your feedback. Kazoo, like other organizations, made business decisions to weather the pandemic; some of those had deeper impacts on the short-term operations than we anticipated. However, we have invested significantly across the last 18 months to proactively solve for some of the challenges you note, specifically to rebuild parts of the product that had not functioned as intended, and create an even better employee engagement platform. We are thrilled with the work of our Product and Engineering teams, and this new version of our Kazoo product is in final testing, with release to customers at the end of Q3. This will be a game changer for Kazoo. Specific to CS, we know that the team has been working hard to guide our customers through their journey with us. In the last few months, we have made intentional, specific investments in CS to help mature this function and prepare us for the next phase of growth. These include adding team members across the CS organization, developing tools and resources to help these professionals do their job, providing meaningful merit increases and promotions, and bringing seasoned leadership into the organization. We value every member of our #Kazoocrew, and hope that you will begin to see the change in your day-to-day work due to the intentional investments we are making. My door is always open should you prefer to speak directly with me to share additional questions or thoughts. - Paul Pellman, CEO

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5.0
12 May 2020
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So much opportunity for growth - everyone wears so many different hats and there's no walls between departments. If you're interested in learning about something new or exploring career opportunities outside of your department you have the freedom to do so. The benefits - Our own product and the perks from that. Good medical, dental, and vision coverage. Flexible PTO still amazes me to this day. Flexibility for remote work or working from home some of the days of the week. Stocked break room with a BEVI for unlimited sparkling water. Fun office events and office wide celebrations. The PEOPLE! - My gosh, never have I met a more committed and genuine group of people in my life. All of my coworkers are a delight and such hard workers! Never have I felt more excited about tackling intense projects or going to after hour happy hours.

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Lots of change - If you don't like change, this is not the place for you. While we have been around since 2013, we still have the startup mentality. If I look back to when I first started (over a year and a half ago) to now it feels like a different company... but again, the people and product are who really make it great and an amazing place to be. Open office Environment - I personally don't HATE it, but wouldn't mind nicer desks with more privacy.

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Kazoo Response
6y
We appreciate your feedback! Our culture here at Kazoo is one we are very proud of and we are glad to read the benefits, growth opportunities, and community we continue to develop are ‘Pro’s’ for you. They’re ‘Pro’s’ for us too! We also know we are not perfect so your advice to management is something we welcome. The pace of change is pretty quick around here and we’re excited about the future of the company and the changes being made. And we’re grateful to have wonderful employees like yourself as part of this journey. Thank you for being a part of the #kazoocrew!
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