A great place for starting a career, although flawed.
Pros
I thought that Kisi was a great place for starting out in my career. They gave me a lot of responsibility from day 1, which I really loved, even though I was a Junior at the time. You can have a lot of impact on the organization, if you want to. The company culture (before Covid) was fantastic, we had a lot of fun at the office, and the company would organize large company wide get-togethers ("Kisi Kamps") twice per year, which were a real highlight to me. (I hear that the company has now continued to hold these events.) Also the colleagues were great, the hierarchies were flat. There is a lot of flexibility when it comes to working times and working from home.
Cons
Besides during the yearly review, I did not feel that my work was valued a lot. The company relies on super driven individuals who can motivate themselves, with little motivation coming from the company itself. By the end of my time there I was starved out of appreciation, which was also one of the major reasons I left. Communication during the Covid pandemic was bad. Ever since, the company culture has not been anything special at all. This might also be because they failed to keep certain individuals who played key roles in creating that healthy culture that they used to have. With regards to my team, people were located in so many different places, and there was little effort to overcome that distance. The result was that it felt like most people were working for themselves, and that rarely there was unity as a team. The quality of office administration was varying drastically throughout the years. At times there was free fruit and team events on a regular basis, at other times you had to negotatiate to get basic office utensils.
