KIOSK Information Systems Reviews

- Management has no idea how to manage. - No bonuses for the last 2 years with nothing promising on the horizon. - Its a company that makes kiosks but the marketing/sales departments don't know how to sell the software aspect side of it. - Company is barely staying above water financially. - Nothing management or upper management says can be trusted. - There is no structure to anything in the software department (coding standards, scrum methodologies, people/roles, etc) its the wild west and its one of the many reasons why its failing . - No cross training, you will get pigeon holed. - Back door friendships will get you ahead, not hard work and dedication. - The core product that is the backbone of the all the other products has serious architectural problems and cant be sustained long term.

KIOSK is the type of company in which the following scenario is common: You're told one day that you're doing well and receive great praise from your peers, yet there will again be no performance-based salary increases because of recent company struggles... and the next day, one department has five new big-screen TVs mounted on the wall (with neat LED strips attached), one of the managers purchased yet another new vehicle, and another person you continue to outperform gets a promotion. Favoritism is prolific at KIOSK. If you're in sales and want to progress in your career, as far as I've seen, there may be potential for you. However, if you're a more technological mind and want to progress in your career, you'd better be ready to step on some toes, lie, manufacture data, and delegate. That is the only clear-cut route to success - with regard to a technological career - at KIOSK. I cannot speak, empirically, to sales. Encouragement does not trickle down at KIOSK. The BS does. There are more incentives to brown-nose your peers and fabricate data than there are to better yourself professionally and take pride in the good work you do for the company. You're incessantly told "the grass is greener on the other side", yet your immediate boss/manager insists you keep the blindfold (they tied on you) around your eyes. If you're a productive worker, you will be taken advantage of. You will be forced into scenarios in which you're led to believe you're on thin ice so they can put you in your place and keep you there. If you develop the audacity to believe you can progress, they will find a way to turn the tables. Some parts of the company have automated means of tracking performance data for individuals. This is excellent when you're a hard worker. However, have no doubts, your immediate manager will track every ill/wrong move you make, every mistake, every poorly-worded sentence, every slight slip-up, etc., to ensure they're armed with ammo against you should you seek progress at the time of a performance review. They'll have an Outlook email folder with your name on it, assuredly working 10x harder on the accumulation of "dirt" on you than anything related to the benefit of the company. All in all, I enjoyed meeting some good people at the company. It was like being a student at a University: surrounded by like-minded people finding their way, yet suspiciously difficult to determine whether the enveloping institution cares about your development in *any* way/shape/form.