Kotter Reviews

There is no way to fully sum up all of the negatives. I would say if you absolutely needed work, Kotter is a good way to get a recognizable name on your work history. It will help get your foot in the door at other companies when you are ready to change careers. If that is your end goal and you focus on that, it may be tolerable. It’s a nepotistic family firm where anyone who is not in the inner circle is simply doing a well paid internship. It’s a good stepping stone if you are trying to learn or practice basic MS office suite skills and need some brand recognition on your resume. They pay decently enough and have great benefits. The culture is cutthroat and extremely unprofessional, which for many people seemed not to be worth it when coupled with the low quality of leadership and work that only consists of menial tasks for director level and above. The company is a motley crew of people with uncomplimentary skills and opposing views. Titles are handed out for loyalty instead of competence. Also, they are pretty cheap on providing you the tools needed to do the work and would often use free open ware to present work. Why not buy licenses so that work can get done? Stop going through the backflips of trying to work with free software. On that topic- they snoop through your computer, but they leave behind evidence that they were snooping without realizing it. Several times I’ve received notifications of the admin accessing my files, calendar appts, or that they moved an email, and they didn’t realize we knew.

Kotter has made it as far as they will go without making some major changes. At this point, many employees past and present are wondering if the leadership team's goal is just to line their own pockets, because they certainly aren't interested in running or growing a firm. When faced with doing what is right, the leadership team will without fail choose what is easy. Senior leadership is completely removed from the day to day operations of the business and have allowed themselves to become out of touch with most employees except for a select few that they trust. They should question the trust they have put in a few of those people. They also pull in enormous salaries and bonuses each year, while expecting their internal departments to work on shoestring budgets. The top two ranks of employees are primarily engaged in political battles for perceived power. They will feed the senior leaders whatever information makes themselves look good and advance their personal agenda. They will do this at the expense of their colleagues, direct reports, and the business. At the end of the day, this is a failing business where a few longtime employees are treated with extreme favoritism. There are a few people who have done egregious things without so much as a punishment let alone being fired when it's due. The cost of turnover due to these few people is well above whatever value they bring in. But Kotter often spends millions to save pennies. Kotter will never grow unless they shake up the entire structure, and decide that some of these favorites aren't actually serving the company well and haven't for years.