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Kik reviews

4.0

83% would recommend to a friend

(58 total reviews)
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Ted Livingston

97% approve of CEO

79% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

3.8

Culture & values

3.8

Diversity & inclusion

3.8

Compensation and benefits

3.6

Work/Life balance

3.6

Senior management

3.5

Career opportunities

Kik 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 Kik employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

Reviews by job title

58 reviews
3.0
Jun 24, 2017

A short title for your review.

Qa & release co-op
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Pros

- Daily catering two times a day was fantastic - Acceptable culture - Good pay

Cons

- Employee morale was very low - Lots of use of old/bad development practices. - Company isn't going anywhere - Management was not so good

4.0
May 29, 2017

Excellent humans, poor managers

Manager
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Pros

- People on the team are extremely intelligent and well-meaning. You do feel both challenged and supported by your peers most of the time. People do mean it when they care about each other. This point is probably why a lot of people stay for a long time despite numerous cons listed below. - CEO & CFO. The two senior most people in the company do have their fair share of mistakes but what nobody can doubt is their integrity, selflessness, and care for the team. Can't imagine either of them putting their personal interests above what's best for the rest of Kik employees. It does help a lot, when you're pushing through an all-nighter or coming into work on a weekend, to know that your leaders watch your back and would often one you up on that extra effort. - A few more experienced mid-level management workhorse types. They don't get a seat at the executive level but for that reason they are not distracted by it as well, which lets them stay extremely productive as leaders and contributors.

Cons

- Chat app is fundamentally not the most exciting product to work on. Things may change now a bit with Kin. - Waterloo is just an utterly unexciting place to be in your youth unless you already have kids or can't afford to live in Toronto. This is combined with a management opinion which despises any long-term travel & work arrangements even for tenured & trusted employees who have job roles that translate natively into productive long-distance arrangements. - A lot of first-time managers which means a lot of insecurities and poorly contained ego-driven decisions. Like I said, people are well-meaning and intelligent but not always know how to handle their emotions well which translates into morale issues in the trenches.

3.0
Mar 27, 2017

kik

Anonymous employee
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Pros

cool people worked with me

Cons

company direction didn't seem good

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