A bad risk - Anonymous employee Kaleidescape Employee Review

1.0
19 Mar 2013
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

They are a creative group of people, trying very hard to drive innovation in their niche of the entertainment system industry.

Cons

- Financially weak - ongoing layoffs, cutting corners to get a job done. Well past the point of running a lean ship,they are under staffed and under equipped. - A lot of lip service is given to a "flat" culture where everyone has the same level of responsibility and where departments are working collaboratively. In practice, there are many examples of favoritism and cross-team friction. - When you have senior management (director level) firing off profanities during team meetings, it is clear there is little appreciation of what is acceptable in today's corporate work place. Even in a small company there are standards that need to be followed. - Despite their founding in 2001, in 2013 they are trying to restart almost from scratch and are at the same level of risk and maturity as any new startup company. - Having offices both in Ontario and California, they have not learned how to work across the time zones effectively. Instead there is a constant demand on employees in Ontario to put in full work days plus be available into the evenings to communicate with their counterparts in California. This puts a long-term strain on one's personal time.

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Kaleidescape Response
10y
We appreciate you sharing your opinions so candidly and believe we are making big strides towards improvement in the areas you mention.

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Pros

Nice Co-Workers: For the most part everyone was very nice and helpful. You could go up to most people and ask them for help without getting any attitude or get talked down to. Work/Life Flexibility: The higher-ups in my department were very lenient when it came to time off. When you asked for some time off, you were most likely approved that time.

Cons

Let Go Without Notice: I know that California has an AT WILL termination policy, but for a company that emphasized on multiple occasions that we, the employees are like family, they sure did not treat us like one when they let us go. I could tell that some of the employees knew that this was going to happen and didn't seem shocked when the news came out. Since they were brought back a few months later. High Expectations: Always felt like we were on a do or die schedule. Higher ups expect you to know everything about how things worked and chastised you for not knowing the answer at that moment.

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