Cash grab by ownership, beware of being outsourced - Anonymous employee Kunai Employee Review

2.0
19 Apr 2024
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Clients and lower-level people are pretty great, it's easy to build relationships at some large well-known companies and the potential to get hired at the client full time is there. - No objections from Kunai to getting hired at client as a full timer. - It's contracting so the hours are reasonable. - Remote work.

Cons

- The company purely exists to enrich it's management. They actively pursue companies that they've worked at previously that are notorious for paying out high rates for contractors. I'm thoroughly convinced management started the company just as a way to skim off the top from their previous employers and exploit the relationships they built at those companies. Personally I wouldn't mind if they were just more transparent about it. - They are actively mass-hiring less qualified but far cheaper labor in Mexico and firing US-based experienced workers. There are active projects to enable the companies Kunai contracts with to be able to provide sensitive data that typically would've been restricted to US-based employees to Mexico-based employees. If you are a US-based employee, be prepared to have your job outsourced within the next 1-2 years; your best bet is to try to get hired at whatever company you're farmed out to.

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5.0
10 Jul 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great leadership Supportive staff Transparent culture Excellent CEO

Cons

Low pay considering the amount of money the company brings in and the work we do.

5.0
1 May 2025
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Leadership genuinely cares, and works to provide good benefits, balance and communication to everyone - Really exciting work in the FinTech industry. We work on critical platforms and in a variety of interesting stacks - Great co-workers, and a culture of knowledge sharing, continuous learning and development - A lot of autonomy as an employee. You will not be micromanage and everyone has a seat at the table when it comes to making decisions that effect our work - The company is on very stable footing. There's been a lot of growth and it seems that even in a weaker economy Kunai is still trending up

Cons

- Being in a consultancy isn't for everyone. We do deal with ambiguity and changing priorities more so than most product companies I've been in - Overall the salary and benefits are pretty good, however there aren't any variable comp/equity opportunities for the majority of roles

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