Knack Reviews

This company has given up on becoming proftiable. They will likely sell it off (again) after the recent layoffs show a 10-20% improvement in profit. Cultural nightmare. New CTO is entirely political actor and generally will make your life a nightmare so that he can properly manage his relationship with the relatively clueless new owners of the company. Senior Architects are hired in without any input from team. Your work will be constantly micromanaged and criticized (at 11PM) so that you can be laid off at a moments notice if it suits the CTO. (You will a very ungenerous 2 weeks of severance). The new profit strategy is to hire the lowest paid employees possible. All in all it's fine due to acceptable pay and resume building. Having no hope for the company as a whole is a good way to work here. Focus on getting your tickets done and accept the fact that promotion is impossible. Don't accept any greenfield projects, they typically lead to getting laid off as the (many) owners posture to one another about why it's all the engineers' faults.

Your success and happiness at this company will be inversely correlated to how closely you have to work with the CEO. He's a special kind of nano-manager/10X Developer combo who won't give you space to breathe while also making sure you know he could probably do your work better than you if he just had the time.