Great company to work for with exciting work - Anonymous employee Kelvin Employee Review

5.0
Mar 27, 2022
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

I worked at Kelvin for over 3 years and experienced the growing pain of a company finding it's niche. There was some turn over and product guidance problems early on, but the company has really found it's stride. The new product and engineering teams are able to define the product requirements and work together to develop the deliverables. Within a couple of sprints, the new Chief Product Officer was able to bring focus and direction to the product lines and a unified message on what was being built and for whom. I worked on the engineering side and it is a great group of developers. It's a multidisciplinary team with folks from around the world. Most everyone is nice and will to help out with problems you run into. (You'll also learn some Portuguese along the way!) Coming up to speed can be a bit of a learning curve, but there is always someone there on Slack to help you out. Kelvin was good about wanting to make sure you were working on projects that kept you engaged. There are always project you might not be too keen on, but the managers at Kelvin really wanted to keep you engaged and working on the things that can motivate you. There were many instances where folks would feel drawn to a different role and the managers were receptive and willing. Folks from engineering going to product, changing from backend development to application development, etc. Having the space to explore what you enjoy working on was refreshing in a company. Overall, I had a very good experience working at Kelvin and would recommend it to anyone looking for a fast paced, exciting career.

Cons

There can be odd hours and Slack messages at all times of the day. It's a smaller company with offices around the world, so somewhere, there are co-workers working that will likely have questions or a problem. When you are leading engineering teams, you need to willing to hop onto calls at all times.

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5.0
Jun 24, 2024
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Pros

1- Remote work culture 2- Great work culture and supportive colleagues 3- Great salary and benefits

Cons

Company structure changes from time to time

1.0
Dec 15, 2025
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Provided healthcare plans are competitive

Cons

The previous review has inspired me to write one as well. Let me highlight a few points so you don’t set your career back working here. It is generally accepted within the tech industry that you receive all your shares if you are let go without cause (effectively a cliff vest). Here, however, in your employment contract will be a clause which states that you do not receive any shares unless you are with the company for minimum one year (again, if you are let go without cause that is not up to you!). That means, at any point, the company can claim “restructuring” where you are the only person affected. Even if you are 11 months and 29 days in, you will not receive any of your shares. I will also point out that the meetings here are extremely toxic, just folks hurling manure at each other for an hour; attrition understandably is remarkably high. Finally, the ceo is extremely vindictive and quite hands-on.

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