Kudos Reviews

3.0

47% would recommend to a friend

(61 total reviews)
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Muni Boga

59% approve of CEO

37% positive business outlook

Kudos has an employee rating of 3.0 out of 5 stars, based on 61 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Kudos employee rating is 22% below average for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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61 reviews
5.0
22 Apr 2026

Took a shot on Kudos and glad I did

Recommend
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Pros

I read the reviews before I joined and almost passed. Took the shot anyway and the experience so far has not matched what I saw. The product is genuinely differentiated in the recognition category. Culture over catalog is not a tagline, it shows up in how the platform is built and how customers use it. Muni is an accessible CEO who engages directly with the team and welcomes honest input. The OLT is great, aligned, accessible, and committed to doing this the right way. Smart, committed people across sales, marketing, CS, and product who care about doing the work right. Customers, revenue, and clear conviction about where the category is going. Flexible environment, good work-life balance, and meaningful scope available quickly if you are willing to own it.

Cons

Like any growing company, there are areas still being built out, including clearer career pathing and tighter cross-functional alignment. Leadership is actively working on both.

1.0
21 Aug 2025

No Integrity, No Operations, No Bueno.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Autonomy and great colleagues are the only accidental pros.

Cons

Kudos loves to position itself as a “great place to work,” but the reality is far from it. The gap between what leadership says and what actually happens is staggering, and employees see right through it. Executive leadership is widely regarded as a source of frustration rather than inspiration. They lack grounding in any formal methodologies, operations, or people practices, and instead operate on impulse — more like a group of kids playing “Let’s run a company” than experienced leaders building one. The result is an environment with no clear direction, no foundation for growth, and no investment in people. What you’ll find is plenty of rhetoric about culture, innovation, and values, but very little evidence of it in day-to-day operations. If you’re looking for stability, meaningful leadership, or a company that lives up to its own hype, this isn’t it.

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Kudos Response
10mo
We hear the concerns about leadership consistency, execution, and investment in people. We take this seriously and are focusing on ensuring that we deliver clear priorities, a steady operating cadence, and effective manager support. We will share progress with our team and continue to learn from this feedback.
2.0
24 June 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Some great people that work there. Unfortunately they're not in leadership positions. Half-day Friday's during the summer.

Cons

Software headed in the wrong direction. Building a new product that is somehow worse than the first one and seems to get worse by the day. No one is open to feedback and everyone gets defensive easily. They hired product leaders that crushed any kind of morale and it continues to get worse.

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Kudos Response
10mo
Thank you for sharing your experience. We recognize the concerns you raised about product direction, openness to feedback, and morale. These are are important to us, and we are focusing on creating structured feedback mechanisms, providing more clarity on product direction, and strengthening manager support. We will continue to share our progress with our team and use this feedback to guide improvements.
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