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Q&A With Kinnek Employees
Kinnek employees answer questions about what life is like behind the scenes at their company, including queries about culture, leadership, professional development, and compensation.
How employees describe working at Kinnek
The Kinnek team is committed to the supply chain process and has built a great platform, assisting the client.
I love working here and am excited to go to work everyday
I'd describe my experience at Kinnek as the best part of my professional career so far.
It has been a whirlwind and really exciting to be a part of something so new and innovative with amazing people!
What I like best is their competence and dedication.
What it's like to work at Kinnek
- Kinnek employees generally work 9.0 hrs a day
- Employees at Kinnek report the work pace is comfortably fast
- 100% of Kinnek employees look forward to interacting with their team every day
- 80% of Kinnek employees report they are happy with their work life balance
- 100% of Kinnek employees call their work environment positive
Q&A With Kinnek Employees
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What benefits does Kinnek provide?
Top Employee Response
Full medical, dental, life, AD&D, retirement 401k, commuter benefits, equity
100% health insurance coverage Unlimited days off Weekly catered lunch Unlimited office snacks AND More!
100% employer paid health insurance Unlimited PTO $75 monthly health and wellness stipend 401k Catered lunch 2x a week Snacks
If you could make changes, how would you improve the culture at Kinnek?
Top Employee Response
The only real issue I see at Kinnek when it comes to culture is communication from the top-down. Our Leadership Team goes to great lengths to document everything they do so that everyone in the company knows why they arrived at the decision on which they settled, but there are STILL people at the basest operational level who ask me why we're doing it the way that was proposed. That tells me that while we're making a very strong effort to be transparent and communicative, we're missing the boat on HOW we're communicating. In summation, Kinnek is great at the volume of documentation but could use some help in the quality of that documentation or the messaging that surrounds a specific Leadership decision. If there was one thing I could change at Kinnek, it would be to foster a more inclusive decision-making process to help avoid the question of, "Why are we doing it this way, again?"
I wouldn't want to change the culture. Things can get a bit silly here but it's important that work remains fun.
Honestly wouldn't change a thing about the culture. It is one of the companies best features. The office offers a cool, laid back setting while working with an extremely supportive group of co-workers. Our company events are also never a letdown.
What are you most excited about working at Kinnek?
Top Employee Response
Building products that will help small business owners solve problems with purchasing, cash flow, logistics, and financing.
Exploring new and better ways to help small businesses get started, expand, or solve any problems they encounter with cash flow management, vendor trust, and general purchasing.
Working on the plethora of products we can build to help both our buyer companies and our seller companies who work in our marketplace every day.
What interview questions does Kinnek ask?
Personally, I'm much more interested in what YOUR questions are. I love candidates who ask good questions. In my mind, a good question is one that shows you have insight or the ability to use questioning to illuminate things for you. If you can't ask good questions, you can't find good answers.
Man, we ask a lot of questions! That said, I think we're even more interested in the questions YOU might have for US. We want to sense that you care. I was about to type a comma after that last sentence, but I realized that putting the fact that you care in a list wouldn't give that point justice. We need you to be genuinely passionate for the the economic impact Kinnek intends to have on small- and medium-sized business purchasing regardless if that SMB is an end user or a supplier to end users. If you don't genuinely care about the plight of small businesses, then you better be bringing something game-changing to the table.
What's the interview process like at Kinnek?
Extensive. For a time, even Customer Success had a phone screening on day one and then a three-round in-person interview on day 2. Our intent is that you feel you've been given a chance to impress as many stakeholders/hiring managers as possible and also to get a better feel for us. We understand that interviews are a two-way street; we're not just judging how well you'd fit at Kinnek, we're also recruiting and trying to sell you on the job by being as realistic and honest as possible when answering your questions.
We take interviewing incredibly seriously--probably more seriously than any company on the East Coast. If we invite you into the office for an interview, you are someone special who should already be treated as one of us even though you haven't even begun to consider an offer. I'm very, very proud of our CEO Karthik Sridharan for making Kinnek an awesome place at which to interview, and I'm very glad to see us maintaining that ideal since he introduced it back in 2012.
How are the career growth opportunities on the Engineering team at Kinnek?
The team is not currently looking to expand in size or scope. It's unclear when that will change.
What's the work from home policy like at Kinnek?
Kinnek does not have a set work from home policy. However, the company offers a very flexible schedule. If you need/want to work from home one day it is usually accepted.
What part of Kinnek's business is growing fastest? What part is having difficulties?
Fastest is probably marketplace size. The slowest thing to develop is revenue, but we're FINALLY optimizing for it after years of building and scaling our product and finding product market fit.
How's the work life balance at Kinnek?
For most, it's skewed more toward work. This isn't because it's demanded or even expected of us but more that it's what we want to do.
What do people at Kinnek think about the CEO? What do they do well and what can they improve?
Karthik is absolutely tireless. That dude lives and breathes this company and cares about every nut and bolt here. I think he's on his way to becoming a great public CEO, too. He makes it a point to address certain national issues that may affect people in the company like travel bans, scandals involving others in the NYC tech scene, etc and I think that awareness like that and the confidence to address those things will spill over into public statements once more eyes are on him and more people want to know his reaction to something.
What's the office vibe like at Kinnek?
Friendly, cooperative, and supportive.
What's the company culture like at Kinnek?
Top Employee Response
The friends you make at Kinnek are ones you keep long-term. We routinely see former coworkers attend company outings and celebrations and we feel like every employee is part of our, "mafia."
What do employees at Kinnek think about their benefits?
Kinnek employees rate their overall benefits an A+ and most of them think the perks are Fantastic. 100% of Kinnek employees say they are satisfied with their benefits. The majority of employees also get Unlimited of paid vacation, and most of the employees believe the cash value of their benefits is $500 -$1000/mo.
How's career growth and advancement at Kinnek?
86% of the same employees also feel like Kinnek is invested in their career growth. On average, majority of employees do not have a mentor to help them navigate their career at Kinnek.
How are the managers at Kinnek?
Kinnek employees rate their manager an A+ or 91/100 and the majority believe their manager truly cares about them as a person. Most of the employees (75%) also feels pretty comfortable providing negative feedback directly to their boss.
What's the pay like for employees at Kinnek?
Kinnek employees rates their pay and overall compensation an A+ or 90/100. 96% of employees believe they are paid fairly and 50% of employees get raises every year.
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Should I work at Kinnek?
72% of Kinnek employees would encourage their friends to become coworkers, whereas 23% are neutral and 5% would not recommend working at Kinnek to their friends.
| 72% | Promoters |
|---|---|
| 23% | Passive |
| 5% | Detractors |
