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      Skio Reviews

      4.2

      73% would recommend to a friend

      (39 total reviews)

      85% positive business outlook

      Skio has an employee rating of 4.2 out of 5 stars, based on 39 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Skio employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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      39 reviews
      1.0
      23 Aug 2022

      Avoid - toxic environment

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      Decent salary and paid heath insurance

      Cons

      CEO is not a leader in any sense of the word. He spends more working hours at the gym than working on his business. Two founding engineers openly speak badly about him behind his back and other team members when they aren’t in office. High turn over rate - they fire people with no warning or reasoning. Avoid at all costs.

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      Skio Response
      3y
      Hi, in reading these reviews it’s clear that some employees didn’t have a great experience working here and for that I’m sorry. I’m working hard to consider this feedback and will use it to do better going forward. It’s true that a lot of our goals are aspirational ($1T is definitely hyperbolic), but I do dream about making Skio a major company (a big dream, but not an outrageous one). This is my first time running a company + managing people and I’ve made plenty of mistakes. The learning curve has been steep and I still have a lot to learn. In June of this year, I started working with an executive coach and creating proper management loops. For context, we’re a remote company and at the time I had ~20-30 direct reports with everyone effectively reporting to me. In an attempt to make this work (and as a stopgap), 1:1s were 10 minutes and every 2 weeks. Today, things are very different. We’ve hired multiple senior engineers (all with ~7 years of experience from companies like Databricks, Pinterest, Thumbtack) and a sales leader (almost 20 years of experience + was at Klaviyo as employee #4). This has enabled me to have proper 30 minute 1:1s weekly (with just ~8 direct reports). As a company, we are well capitalized and experiencing hypergrowth (revenue and headcount grew ~1000% in 2022). Especially with 6 new (and more soon) strong engineers and a team of 33 to start off 2023, we’re confident we’re in a great position to deliver the best subscription experience for brands on Shopify. The team and I at Skio are extremely grateful for this opportunity and are excited for the journey ahead :-) If you want to get a better sense of who we are, please feel free to reach out. Thank you, -Kennan
      1.0
      26 Oct 2022

      Don't join — train wreck.

      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      - Company has product market fit, is profitable

      Cons

      - CEO is delusional; thinks he's taking a Shopify app to a trillion dollar valuation (check the careers page) - he is manic, immature, can't manage anyone. - The turnover rate is ridiculously high (70%), most employees don't even last a few months. They either get fired or quit. - Culture is toxic. CEO had an executive assistant even though the company had less than fifteen people — thinks he's Zuckerberg or Musk and acts like he is running a multi-billion dollar company. - Misleading valuation — it's not worth what they tell employees. They were pitching employees a 200x valuation, which is absurd.

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      Skio Response
      3y
      Hi, in reading these reviews it’s clear that some employees didn’t have a great experience working here and for that I’m sorry. I’m working hard to consider this feedback and will use it to do better going forward. It’s true that a lot of our goals are aspirational ($1T is definitely hyperbolic), but I do dream about making Skio a major company (a big dream, but not an outrageous one). This is my first time running a company + managing people and I’ve made plenty of mistakes. The learning curve has been steep and I still have a lot to learn. In June of this year, I started working with an executive coach and creating proper management loops. For context, we’re a remote company and at the time I had ~20-30 direct reports with everyone effectively reporting to me. In an attempt to make this work (and as a stopgap), 1:1s were 10 minutes and every 2 weeks. Today, things are very different. We’ve hired multiple senior engineers (all with ~7 years of experience from companies like Databricks, Pinterest, Thumbtack) and a sales leader (almost 20 years of experience + was at Klaviyo as employee #4). This has enabled me to have proper 30 minute 1:1s weekly (with just ~8 direct reports). As a company, we are well capitalized and experiencing hypergrowth (revenue and headcount grew ~1000% in 2022). Especially with 6 new (and more soon) strong engineers and a team of 33 to start off 2023, we’re confident we’re in a great position to deliver the best subscription experience for brands on Shopify. The team and I at Skio are extremely grateful for this opportunity and are excited for the journey ahead :-) If you want to get a better sense of who we are, please feel free to reach out. Thank you, -Kennan
      2.0
      25 Nov 2023

      Tread carefully. Deleted reviews.

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      Team is really friendly and they offered a Good package. The pay was what you would expect from a company in this stage . Interesting technical problem.

      Cons

      The CEO seems to have found a way to delete all of the negative reviews on glassdoor and there were a lot, so many. It was not good from the beginning. I had to reach out to former employees to figure out what was going on. CEO is immature and was harassing a female ceo who was a competitor, and had to apologize publicly on Linkedin which was embarrassing. This was recently. He has not changed despite promises to. Ask about the turnover rate. And ask if they had employees write positive reviews here. I think the ceo wrote a lot of them because so many of the "perfect 5 star" reviews have smiley faces in them and sound like it was written by GPT. Ask about how many people left because they were fed up lol. Dont trust this page, it is a weird company. Cant believe they took down all the honest reviews.

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      Skio Response
      2y
      Hi, I thought it was important to respond directly here given what was written. I first want to address comments about the review removal. All reviews including negative ones that have been written are present. As mentioned in the responses to them, I take feedback seriously and am trying my best to turn Skio into a place people love working at. Regarding positive reviews, all of them (minus the one I’m allowed to write) were written by employees. Now for the accusation made with “harassing a female ceo who was a competitor.” There’s an insinuation here that I need to address. Earlier this year, there was a post on LinkedIn made by a competitor of ours complaining about our cold outbound sales. In response to this, we audited and changed the way we do outreach. On that same thread, something that happened a year prior was brought up, and yes, I apologized publicly because I didn’t handle the situation maturely. While my response was immature, it in no way involved any kind of harassment. I don’t really want to go into exact details of the situation because I wish this competitor the best and want to move on, but if someone doing due diligence sees this and wants more context, I’d be more than willing to discuss what I did and what I would’ve done differently in hindsight. I don’t think you work here (are you from a competitor?), but if you do, I invite you to speak with me directly. If we can’t work through your concerns, I would be ready to provide you with a generous severance package so you can find somewhere else you’re happier to work. Thank you, -Kennan
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