Kainos Reviews

Pros

great if you just want to get by and not improve your coding skills by doing boring work for the government

Cons

boring projects for gov depts. low pay, no work life balance

Pros

free cereal, near the train station

Cons

expected to work overtime, awful managers, expenses never fully paid, very cheap accommodation where ever you end up working

Pros

- Good work life balance - Good benefits (salaries are about average) - Travel potential - Good training program

Cons

- Lack of interesting work - Limited opportunities outside of support roles - Over complicated management structure - Employees are frequently micromanaged

Pros

The people on-site at clients are generally great fun to work with and there are plenty of social events throughout the year. People on-site tended to be hardworking and I enjoyed the focus on doing the "right thing" rather than the quick fix within public sector projects. The personal development opportunities are fairly good if you have the drive to go after them. Managers seemed to genuinely care about the people they were supporting and were always happy to help improve things where they could or to offer guidance on where else to go for help.

Cons

The back-office teams in Belfast are hugely under-resourced and therefore disorganised. As of late 2019, they were totally unable to keep up with handling the number of projects which were on-going. I had a number of issues around expenses and other related issues. Messages from HR/finance were inconsistent, slow and often times proved to be incorrect. Whilst there is a large amount of noise made about fixing growing pains and improving the company culture, I didn't see any actual progress and this was a common theme amongst the people I spoke with. There's a issue with Belfast-biased leadership in the DevOps area which has resulted in some fairly inexperienced people getting into positions of influence. This has certainly caused some negative opinions (due to poor hiring decisions and guidance) of the company as a whole, which engineers on-site are then forced to disprove.

Pros

Flexible working Everyone is approachable and friendly Great work/life balance with working hours, so long as you're in between the core hours of 10am-4pm Work nights out and team nights out It's a grown up way of working, everyone knows what they are doing and you're given freedom to be creative.

Cons

There aren't any cons so far