Kin Insurance reviews

Kin touts diversity and inclusion as a core value, but it is simply something to be talked about, and never to be followed-through on. If you ask why, HR says it's a "leading question" that they don't want to talk about. Compensation isn't the worst, but you can certainly make more money somewhere else with a lot less headache and frustration. Benefits aren't anything to write home about. If you work toward a promotion, you have a better chance of achieving it if you are white. Alternatively, you can easily take on a team title for extra responsibility, but with no extra compensation. Kin is not invested in the growth of their employees. Leadership is extremely hands off. The key to success is: ship your tickets, don't ask too many questions, and don't make anything their problem. Kin claims it has a blameless culture, which translates to no one gets blamed until something goes wrong - and it's rarely leadership to blame. Management has also demonstrated seriously questionable behaviors regarding people of color, where making discriminatory and racist comments is only the tip of the iceberg. A job at Kin is just a layover on the way to a real software company.

Lack of ownership at the highest level of the technology organization. Principal-level employees jumping ship or being forced out. Unqualified managers are given teams with no oversight or support. Patterns of verbal and passive abuse propagated at the C-level permeate down into the rest of the org. Hippo driven development. Non-competitive pay. Carrot on a string-based review cycles. Qualified individuals overlooked for external hires. New candidates will be paid as high or more than existing individuals regardless of tenure. Constantly moving goalposts. No positive outlook for any of the above to be corrected in the next year. Any review of this company that doesn't specifically mention the tech-org should be ignored. The technology department works in its own, highly dysfunctional way.