Kahoa reviews

4.0

66% would recommend to a friend

(58 total reviews)

Jason Thelin

100% approve of CEO

67% positive business outlook

Kahoa has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 58 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Kahoa 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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58 reviews
2.0
Nov 20, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

They go above and beyond with benefits and perks to keep employees happy. Flexible schedules and work-from-home for proven employees. Most employees will work on a variety of projects and will naturally acquire new jobs skills.

Cons

No day-to-day guidance or communication with supervisors. Expectations are not communicated (other than "complete this project") - but when you don't meet all their hidden expectations, you will be instantly terminated without notice. There are often no resources to get help with problems as employees are often out on assignment. No mentoring whatsoever. You must track every hour and attempt to bill a client for those hours or you are losing the company money, which can be stressful. QA department doesn't really do much, which means you have to QA everything yourself or suffer the consequences (not something they tell you).

2.0
Sep 23, 2018

An Honest Assessment

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Solution Stream does a lot to make you feel valued. They host lunches, game nights, movie nights, barbecues, a Lagoon Day, Spouse Appreciation Dinner, and Christmas Party along with a Back to School party in the park. Most of their events involve raffle prizes and motivational speeches. Their technical managers are skilled and always there to guide and help you in your career plus they are really nice, positive people. I couldn't ask for a more supportive group. The benefits are competitive and unlike a lot of contracting firms you can certainly work overtime to receive extra pay. That's always nice when projects are on a tight deadline and your clients allow you to work overtime to get the job done. The projects I was put on where engaging and they really put in the spot light were I had opportunities to do a lot of good and grow at the same time.

Cons

As for all the Pro's there are definitely some Con's. I started seeing little red flags here and there. I moved to work for Solution Stream and didn't receive a penny for relocation costs when other competing companies offered generous relocation reimbursement. The move was expensive. Unlike their competitors Solution Stream did not furnish a laptop that was up-to-date. I was given a subpar laptop that didn't have enough computing resources to get my job done so I had to go out and buy an expensive laptop for work. After my first contract with them a few weeks passed by. I referred some potential clients to them but nobody was biting. I have a strong front end skillset and they set me up with interviews where the clients were looking for a pure back end role and that's not what I signed up for. Eventually my manager came to me and said if they didn't find something for me soon they were going to have to let me go. That was contrary to what I was told when I started working there and contrary to the recruitment video where a co-owner by the name of Travis Cook said, "When our projects end employees stay." At this point I was more than concerned for my financial stability and with a family, bills, mortgage, etc. on the line I began to immediately look for future opportunities and found one with an 18% salary increase in just 8 days. The part that was really frustrating was knowing that they had some open positions online for individuals with my same skillset. I suppose they were anticipating future work but to me that just didn't seem right and I had to get out.

1.0
Mar 21, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

If they have hours for you to bill, then you will get them and you will be paid.

Cons

If they don't have hours for you to bill, then you will get let go most likely. Don't sign NDA's....they are worse than Trumps.

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