Some good, some bad - Recensione dipendente - Software Engineer presso Kraken

3,0
6 feb 2025
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

Great worklife balance, work ends when it should and doesn't go into the weekend Cutting edge green tech Sector is still at the bottom of the bell curve, still loads more to do.

Svantaggi

- Product isn't well formed, lots of sticking plasters over cracks. - Career progression is non existent, how or why people get promoted is not clear. No idea how I could get a promotion, or why some are and i'm not. - Pay is poor, actively told not to discuss it. Maybe 20% below market. - Leads/managers would struggle to get hired in similar roles elsewhere. Handed positions without due process and lack skills to do it effectively. - Focus on the product not just growth at all costs.

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Risposta di Kraken
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Hi there, Thanks for taking the time to leave us a review. It’s great to hear that you appreciate the work-life balance at Kraken and that you’re excited about the opportunities in the green tech space—there’s certainly a lot still to come! We really value your feedback on the areas where we can improve. We know that career progression and clarity around promotions are crucial, and the capability team have been actively working to make this process more transparent. On your comments about management support, we’ve been looking at how we can better equip our leads and managers with the time, tools, and training they need to succeed in their roles - a great example of this is the leadership development programme. Thank you for your feedback regarding competitiveness - re salaries. We believe that Kraken pays fairly when you start with us, by fair we mean you could get paid more for the same role elsewhere, but you could also be paid less. We don’t compete on salaries, because paying at the top end of salaries does not help us on our mission to offer cheaper, fair, sustainable power to the masses whilst looking after the most vulnerable. If you’d like to discuss your experiences or share more details, please feel free to reach out to me directly, if you have any suggestions that you think could help, we would love to here these too - you can either reach out to me directly or use the capability channels if you feel comfortable doing so. Thanks again for your contribution and feedback! Olivia Roberts olivia.roberts@kraken.tech

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5,0
8 giu 2026
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

Amazing work environment and people

Svantaggi

fast growing so sometimes dissorganized

5,0
12 dic 2025
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

Newhire here, extremely glad to have landed at Kraken. The company is genuinely driven by a desire to deliver the transition to a sustainable energy future. Does an amazing job of making employees genuinely empowered and accountable, in a blameless and humane setting, which gives people the authority to make themselves productive. Normally I'd consider that to be a Silicon Valley thing, but here at Kraken this has a bit of a British spin on it, being the company's history derives from the UK's Octopus Energy. The resulting mix slices through corporate politics with real talk and joviality. I just got out of one genuinely hilarious and inspirational optional all-hands which left others commenting "OMG It's my first week, does this happen every Friday???" In my department, clients (such as electrical utilities) love the way we're revolutionizing their businesses, including the way they treat their call center staff, humanizing them to become wide-ranging, informed and empowered problem solvers on behalf of their customers, instead of helpless automatons following scripts. Elsewhere, Kraken has tentacles in all kinds of sustainable tech, from sustainable generation, huge demand-flattening battery installations, domestic EV chargers, and smart meters. Business is booming, growth is spectacular, and huge markets still exist for the taking...

Svantaggi

I'm a programmer. We have a big codebase. There is some tech debt. But show me a 2,000 person high growth company for which that isn't true. Everyone has a very sane attitude towards it. Not a biggie.

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