KKR Reviews

The company touts a great "work-life" balance tagline, but in reality, everyone must be at the office by 9 am and leave by 5 pm with paid 1 hr lunch break. "Open-door" policy is also touted, but in reality, suggestions are not welcomed. Food and drinks are provided so that the employees do not leave the office. The company prefers that everyone remains onsite from 9 - 5. The work environment is very suffocating. An employee must act and say the "correct" things; otherwise lectures will be forthcoming.

Bizarre, extremely siloed and political culture. Also literally everything is a fire drill - zero work life balance. Was hired into a "staff" role with a nice VP title and seemingly nice people, but never could have known how much of a divide there is between "executives" and how much of a second class citizen you are internally. As an example, we were not invited to any of the optional training or learning sessions, and even sillier things like being the only people on our floor not included in the summer outing or allowed to visit the dining hall (we had a seamless credit instead). I knew within 2 weeks I had made a huge mistake but had to stick it out. Zero opportunity for internal mobility. I still shudder and tense up at my memories of my time wasted here.