KUBRA Reviews

3.8

72% would recommend to a friend

(212 total reviews)

Rick Watkin

83% approve of CEO

68% positive business outlook

KUBRA has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 212 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The KUBRA employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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212 reviews
1.0
23 Jul 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

I literally have nothing but since I have a 20 word minimum requirement, I will say this: - Most people are not technically proficient, so you can make things up and they won't know.

Cons

- No career advancement opportunities. The best you will get is working with very poorly written VB.NET code and running some SQL queries against terribly designed DB. If you're not vocal enough, you will work with languages like VB3 and VB6, and will have to support their low quality products - Poor compensation. This is one of the reasons good people are leaving. The leftovers are mostly people that are unable to find better jobs elsewhere and are settling with poor pay. - No investment their employees what-so-ever. Mandating training of subpar products and shoving them down doesn't count as investment! They don't understand what it means to invest in their employees. This was the first time I've ever seen a company forcing people to use Visual Studio Express without inline step-in debug. - Management lies. I heard they lied to other people and they lied to me, so I don't see why they won't lie again in future to get what they want. - Everyone's mentality is to fix things only when it's broken and they don't even fix them all. There is no such thing as innovation in this company and it gets even more pathetic when you have to go on client calls and promote broken products. - Hiring process is out of whack. Just weeks before I left they hired a guy with 10 years of experience in retail management as a senior developer. No offense to that guy, but you just don't jump from retail manager to senior developer.

3.0
11 Oct 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

OK benefits. Most people are really great. Not a downtown Toronto location. Social events. I like working at Kubra despite all the cons, but it is becoming more and more difficult in a day to day life at the office.

Cons

Below average pay, yearly raise is also minimal (1%-2%, sometimes less). Bonus is calculated by bogus formula - we get corporate email from owners that we increased profits, but then get only 50% of what we could of gotten. Furthermore, at one point top management sent an email with goals for the year, but at payout day, the goal was raised by 3% so we did not qualify for 100% of bonus, but only 50%. Depending on the team, some are passionate and awesome, some are clinical and "you took 5 minutes more at lunch, where have you been?". Overtime is mostly not available, but again, depends on the team. Some teams have VPs that fight for every OT hour (they prefer you take a day off instead of pay), but some VPs dish out OT like peanuts and some lucky people that are in the right circle rake up over 10K of OT $ in a year, easy. Constantly lacking resources (sales sell, but we got no one to work on), thus projects delay, customer are unhappy and IMHO this is unsustainable. Some programmers (seniors too) are very shabby - the code they write is on par a recent grad. This is not because they are unfamiliar with the technology, but rather because they lack logic or didn't have time to properly test (still their fault) or just don't care enough.

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KUBRA Response
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Thank you for taking the time to provide your feedback. We regularly evaluate our benefits and compensation packages and compare and benchmark them to our competitors in the area. The compensation programs we have in place are designed to recognize and reward our people based on performance. We want to ensure our people understand how the bonus program is structured, which is why we share the formulas and calculations with our people. If you’d like to discuss your concerns in more detail, please feel free to send me an email or stop by my office. Laura, SVP HR
1.0
7 Feb 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Friendly and sociable coworkers but not really any pros beyond that

Cons

There are a lot of flaws with this company but I won't be able to fit it all into this box. The first thing that comes to mind is the constant micromanagement from upper management. They are discriminatory, severely unempathetic, and just plain awful. I am a pregnant woman who has been with the company for several years. I requested remote working privileges because of my nausea from my pregnancy and the two hour commute it takes to get to the office each way. This amounts to 4 hours of travel time each day which is just ridiculous when I can complete the same amount of work from the comfort of my own home. I presented HR with a medical doctor's note but my request was rejected by upper management. I have been a top performer, so this isn't a reflection on my work ethic, or their fear of inefficiency, but rather the fact they like to see their worker bees in their desks. My team is in a different country but upper management still insists I come into work twice a week. Upper management is definitely failing this company and maybe it speaks as a reflection of the whole. I have reached burnout but no one cares. Most people with talent have already left this company. The only people remaining who work at this company are the ones who cannot find another job. Beware when joining this company. I'll definitely be quitting soon too.

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