Pros
1. Unlimited PTO (advertised but frowned upon) 2. Fully remote (WFH options available even prior to the pandemic). 3. Generous benefit allowance (desk budget, lifestyle budget etc).
Cons
1. Koho has a unique capacity to make you question your own capabilities and your skill, not just as an employee but also as a human being. You question your own morality and ethical upbringing when asked to do certain tasks (lie to employees, customers and talk about customers as of they are neanderthals). 2. Massive bro lobby with former employees from Amazon, Uber, Revolut and other consultancies who bring their own unique flavor of toxicity and bro-esque behaviour. 3. Mental breakdowns and burn outs are incredibly common as you are not given any liberty to enact your own best practices. You're told to either follow your manager's lead or get stepping. "My way or the highway" is the company's philosophy. Everything you do will be criticized, deconstructed and ridiculed to the point that you will be asked to even send your emails to your manager so that they can vet them prior to them being sent out. 4. Most importantly: Your work output is irrelevant in your career at koho: If you're not liked by your manager despite you putting in the hours, getting along with your coworkers and your work is nothing short of stellar, if your manager doesn't like you, your days at koho are numbered. And no one will have your back - your manager might be praising you during your 1:1s but in front of the team will make it appear that your work output was because of their leadership and input and you really didn't do much. 5. And if the above situation does come about, due to the public narrative, a situation will be devised/engineered where you're forced to leave. They will not fire you - you'll leave on your own accord for your own mental sanity. I know of a number of people (in the double digits) who were pushed out of the company because their managers did not like them or couldn't understand the highly technical/specialized work they did. 6. Product: The product is built on a shaky infrastructure. The Product Managers believe they are gods and have egos the size of the country. It is a nightmare to work with the product team - they thrive on pushing people under the bus and blame other teams for their own shortcomings and not hitting KPIs. Godspeed to the existing employees who have to work with them. Having worked with more than one team at koho, the product folks were the ones I dreaded working with. They are experts at "seeking inspiration" (read: copying) what other companies are doing - true innovation does not exist at koho. 7. CEO: The CEO remains oblivious to it all as all the managers either paint a rosy picture or keep him out of the loop. He believes what his managers (immediate reports) tell him rather than investigating and speaking to his own employees on a skip level basis. 8. DEI & Coaching: DEI is a bandaid on a knife wound at koho. It exists to show people how progressive the company is but those measures don't extend to senior leadership. Coaching exists at koho but when i was being victimized by a leadership/power struggle in koho and I explained to the coach what was happening and how to best tackle it, I was hit with a "perhaps you should leave the company" rather than skills/tools/communication techniques I could apply to mitigate the problem.