u/juanitoganadorsucks

Hi all!

Throwaway account.

I wanted to warn as many people as possible about a company called Kizen based in NYC and Austin.

I worked at the NY office for a brief moment. During my time there, I saw people get fired after a month or two of working there. Lured to the company with the promise of high salaries, they'd leave their jobs at some pretty good companies and then they would be promptly fired if they weren't drastically changing the company or creating the viral success the founder imagines.

They do not have performance reviews (the CEO will lie and say that they do, but they don't have a paper trail at all--show the receipts John), so you will be fired for absolutely no reason and with no context. The CTO yells on slack at least once a day and at midnight on the weekends. He goes on tantrums and once fired some girl for making a mistake on a test environment. Another man got fired for going to HR--he was there for a month.

The product itself is awful and I feel bad for the elderly clients who got scammed into it by their pyramid scheme FMOs. Also, the company itself uses pyramid scheme in terminology and admits that is what they are running.

The CEO once told a staff member that he had heard that women don't thrive in start up environments as the explanation for a team member finding another job. They bought a huge office and just keep firing people so they're never going to fill it up.

Oh and they claim to have AI in their product but the AI Bot is awful and not in working order. Probably because they keep firing all of the engineers who have context or people quit.

My favorite part though is that the founder keeps saying things like "We are building a future for humanity."

Bitch how? You run an awful CRM product with a shitty wannabe AI bot. You're like Tony Stark's shitty inventor rival in Iron Man 2.

Do not accept the recruiter's messages in your LinkedIn Inbox. Do not leave your secure job, because you will be on the job market again in less than a quarter.