Kawneer Reviews

Kawneer's IT department in the Norcross location lead by Satya1 K@r is one of the most chaotic, unorganized, unproductive, unstructured, hostile and toxic workplaces I’ve ever experienced in my over 20 years of experience working in IT leadership. Co-workers were some of the most amazing people but the environment we had to work in was hostile, cold, callous, and completely lacking in culture. There is no real leadership, no vision, and no respect for work life balance, or your professional knowledge and skills, and certainly no support for employees looking to grow in their careers because there is no opportunities due to the self-serving nature of the IT leaders mentioned. Satya1 and G3ne do not believe in team member empowerment nor autonomy. There are team members that have worked in the same positions with the same tittles and pay for over 10 and 20 years. You are expected to work M-F onsite with little to no work from home opportunities. All the while, Satya1 constantly works from home or takes weeks off to visit family in India and G3ne WFH at least twice a week EVERY WEEK for so called medical reasons. There are a lot of double standards. Opportunities for advancement are nonexistent. They want work horses and people to do what they say how they said it. SUPER SUPER MICRO MANAGEMENT and any attempts to innovate or improve processes are quickly dismissed by Satya1 and his minion G3ne Pes@vento. G3ne and Satya1 use to work together at another company but both were laid off. Satya1 then hired G3ne as the IT PMO manager and Agile expert for Kawneer's IT department but G3ne has "NO certifications, degrees/education or knowledge" in any of these areas to properly structure and manage a successful IT PMO department. These two are very insecure, intimidated, unexperienced, sad and weak individuals. Satya1 and G3ne's management style is indifferent at best and hostile at worst. Employees are treated as very much expendable while they over work their employees and contractors because of their lack of proper planning and management. Both believe that it's normal behavior to treat and speak to people with such disrespect. Morale is consistently low. Satya1 and G3ne's leadership skills are extremely lacking and any corporation worth its salt in the game and hopes to scale, would never hire them as IT department leaders. And any real HR department would properly report, monitor and manage this toxic culture properly or fire these two immediately for their lack of character, no integrity and constant mistreatment of others, but Tyra S. the HR manager at that location is lazy, out of touch, disingenuous, and clueless as to how to do her job as an HR manager of this company. HR's roll should be to maintain a positive and healthy company culture (grade F), manage employee benefits (grade F), Create a safe work environment (Grade F) and handle disciplinary actions (Grade FFFF). She carries the same traits which has proven to me that this company encourages this type of management behavior or Laurent Salah (President) knows nothing about what is going right on under his leadership at Kawneer. (and he probably doesn't because they lie to Laurent "all the time about the status of their projects". They will then go off and push their teams to deliver rapidly and in hast because of their lack of proper planning, communication and management. There’s no sense of teamwork or collaboration, just a stagnant workplace where people are counting the days until they can leave. If you’re looking for a company that values its employees, work life balance, fosters a positive work culture, allows you to work from home as a professional and encourages professional growth—stay far far away from Kawneer. Or work there at your own risk but don't say I didn't warn you, 100. Most importantly, if by unfortunate circumstances you are currently working at Kawneer in this location under this IT leadership and may feel stuck, please stay strong, stay encouraged, keep praying and believing in God and know that he will bless you with a wonderful opportunity with wonderful people. The grass is very very very much greener on the other side of Kawneer. Launch out, move out. You will find a place that will pay you what you are worth, they will empower you, value you and your skills, you will have time for your personal affairs and you will be appreciated and treated respectful. It's nothing like leaving a toxic environment to landing your dream job with a wonderful and caring culture and people. Good luck to you and all the best and nothing less!