Small town values in a high tech industry. - Training Specialist Karmak Employee Review

5.0
Jan 10, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Karmak is very friendly and family focused as one would hope to find in the midwest. With HQ in Carlinville, IL and a satellite office in Springfield, MO they offer two convenient but very different work locations. My location is the smaller of the two in Springfield, such houses approximately 25 Karmakians currently. Office culture is friendly and casual, no drama. Training position specific pros, the company paid travel is great and easy to maintain a proper work life balance around. Management is very sensitive to life events and will schedule travel around them. They are quick to provide the necessary tools to succeed.

Cons

Pay across the board is at the lower end of the scale I would expect for tech industry roles, but with limited experience required is great for every level and advancing in the company. Working from home is generally frowned upon and remote options are very limited.

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Cons

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3.0
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Pros

Quality Product Great story for the company

Cons

Benefits are VERY expensive. Product is 50% more expensive than the closest two competitors and the primary competitor is arguably the same product for half the cost. Management thinks they can overcome that problem by "selling better" Extremely disorganized between departments. Overall sales structure creates in-fighting. More often than not, sales person is putting out fires that other departments started because they don't know any roles outside of their own. Sales process is taken away from sales person prior to deal officially closing but then if deal goes backwards, salesperson gets their commission taken back even though they weren't handling the rollout. Extremely complicated rollout process.

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