Toxic management with abusive behaviour - Anonymous employee Kuato Employee Review

2.0
22 July 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

a good team working on interesting projects

Cons

A very poor managing director with toxic behaviours and with limited understanding of the disciplines within the development process, which hindered the ideation and development of the games and also created unnecessary stress on the team. The toxic behaviours were likened to an abusive husband relationship with the team, by the team.

Kuato Response
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Thank you for writing a review of Kuato. We appreciate any feedback, negative or positive and I’m sorry that your experience here did not reflect the company culture we strive for. I have listened to your feedback and I am committed to ensure the culture here at Kuato is open, encouraging and collaborative, with no undue stress for the team. We are one year on from your review and through careful planning during a huge recruitment drive, we are a happy team and working on some amazing games. We wish you all the best.

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