K16 Solutions Reviews

- Laid off a third of the company and tripled the workload for engineers (not hyperbole, my manager's words), then cancelled all 1-1s and Officevibe. I didn't speak to my manager directly for about a year after this. - The tech stack is incredibly tedious and difficult to work with. Huge, monolithic, undocumented, untyped code base where testing a single change can take anywhere from 5 minutes to 2-3 hours. - Highly proprietary stack with few transferable skills. - The position is very pigeon-holed, doing a small scope of similar type work over and over. You will not design or build new features, only fix bugs. The problems are not interesting. - No meetings or any real reason to talk to anyone at all. Its just you and whatever tickets you've been assigned. - Super tight, overlapping deadlines and manufactured urgency, resulting in many weeks far exceeding 40 hours. - The person who assigns tickets is / was not a software engineer and does not understand scope of work. - CEO is cringe, worships AI, Musk and Bezos. Says strange things in Slack and email.

Being a small (startup) company with rapid growth there is always a ton of work to do. K16 is very flexible and understanding though and doesn't expect its workers to work 200 hours a week.