Place for great colleagues; not career growth or productivity - Marketing Coordinator Kitopi Employee Review

1.0
26 Mar 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Colleagues and peers are amazing. Collaborative and supportive, teams cross functionally typically work well together to execute and deliver on projects. Generally, as Kitopi covers a wealth of brands, the job scope is typically fun and no day is the same.

Cons

This is hands down the cheapest employer I have ever worked for. Promotions are situational depending on yet another restructure's new requirements, conversations are openly shared and had that trickle down asking managers to downgrade their employees' performances so they don't need to give raises. I've heard other employees' salaries shared with me and others. When you are promoted, it's because there's a gap to fill, not because you've met your KPIs. Super political and not for the best or right reasons. Employees' outlooks inevitably turn negative and are then blamed for not having a positive outlook when they are being stretched to the absolute brim. Management make decisions without actually understanding the situations in their own team.

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5.0
12 Dec 2021
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CEO approval
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Pros

Friendly and helpful colleagues Good Ambience Perfect location

Cons

A place to have food :)

1.0
2 June 2020
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Given a great degree of responsibilities, trust, and power early on.

Cons

The cons here are overwhelming. Kitopi is an extremely poorly managed company from the CEO and co-founders down to the teams in the kitchen. No market or facet of the company is spared from the delusional antics of the top leadership. The only reason the company has managed to survive is 1) Strong investors backing (if it did not have pools of cash in the bank it would have collapsed by now) 2) Their ability to deeply undercompensate employees by offering a false promise of growth. Everything at Kitopi is a fight with management, even when presented with overwhelming data and support form various teams they act out of ego and emotion. From putting their employees in harm's way to disseminating false information the company even forced employees to leave fake positive reviews both about their products online but as well as on this and other job posting sites. Put simply this company has no real culture, it prides its love of 'Kitopians' while abusing those same employees. Only to threaten to fire them at every turn. They drop/replace senior management level employees on a monthly basis (that says it all right there).

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