Kipsu Reviews

Compensation is around 15-20% below market rate for similar roles if not less. High workload due to lack of experienced SMEs, low capacity in engineering since it’s difficult to hire experienced developers. Leadership lacks the ability to say no to customers and ensures a constant inflow of projects that overwhelms their engineering teams as well. Subsequently, due to low compensation there is a lack of senior developers and experienced people don’t stay very long. Previously allowed remote work two days a week but has reduced it to one. Expensive parking with a busy commute downtown. Huge disconnect between leadership and workers, lack of realism or understanding about what it takes to create a quality product. Many projects are typically half baked and rushed out the door unfinished/broken or is forgotten about in a year due to churn.

Chronic overpromising to customers leads to significant delays and a near perpetual crisis mode with one customer or another. I’m constantly missing my kids’ events because Kipsu leaders have no idea how to commit to a realistic workload for the number of people at the company. Severe burnout and extreme workloads are common in every department. Though Kipsu basically forces us to prioritize work over our families, we receive little in return: below-average pay (by leadership’s own admission), subpar benefits (aside from PTO and insurance), strict in-office requirements (they now monitor when employees come and go), and we are severely lacking in enough resources to do our jobs. Kipsu seems to value leaders who sweat the minutia, micromanage others, and pretend like everything is going really well. Kipsu is the kind of company that loves to hold meetings worrying about the placement of the deck chairs on the Titanic and then doesn't finish arranging them until the Titanic is already on the ocean floor. A damning reflection of how Kipsu is managed.