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Kinaxis

I'll keep this short, Kinaxis sells a good product and makes a lot of money for a company of its size. However, as a former member of a development team there I cannot recommend it as a place to work unless you're willing to just shut your mouth, do what you're told, and never think outside the box. Management quality ranges from good to awful, technical competence is all over the map, and employees are not given the opportunity to advance their careers or excel in any area. I was personally told to stop working on projects in my own time more than once, only to later have people rely on those projects once their worth was demonstrated (not that it got me any real recognition or extra pay). On the topic of pay, it's well below industry average. I was making at least 15% less at Kinaxis than I could have been doing the same job elsewhere. Someone there may disagree if they saw my title, but once again Kinaxis fails to impress as job titles are practically meaningless and have little to do with that your work involves beyond which major team you're on. The nail that sticks up gets hammered down, believe me. I was laid off with zero notice and all positive feedback, and I do suspect it was because I informed my manager that I wanted to negotiate more pay. I can't prove it as there is no evidence, but It seems like an awful coincidence. The company has also recently become obsessed with being a "billion dollar company" and it shows, culture is suffering as a result and people are less happy. They imitate policies from other larger companies without knowing why or how it will help them. This cargo cult mentality will hurt them in the long run, mark my words. I'd speculate that the reason they're doing this is an inferiority complex about being around for so long without becoming huge, but that's getting off track.

On the plus side, if you just need a simple job where you show up, work 8 hours, go home, and get enough money to pay rent+bills, Kinaxis can provide it. Just don't look for anything more.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Ability to work from home. Food snacks. Location

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
No clear direction. Not a lot of salary adjustments. Asked to perform tasks outside of your role, on a regular basis. Little recognition

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Mediocre. A lot of knowledgeable senior staff are expected to pick up the slack and train a high ratio of younger, less-knowledgeable staff - all for the sake of saving some money.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Very long. Dealing with multiple issues, and difficult to get assigned tasks completed.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Positive work environment, established processes, good client list.  

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
High emphasis on improving win rate

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Generally people oriented but I was not given the mentoring that was promised and people often work evenings and weekends to catch up.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Preparing or meeting with internal teams or customers.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Colleagues exhibited friendliness and a welcoming demeanor.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Extended meetings lacking clear agendas and lacking decisiveness. Frequent interruptions were commonplace. Developers were evaluated based on the quantity of commits and the number of closed tickets.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
The work environment is characterized by a constant need for addressing urgent issues.

Kinaxis is an niche company that provides planning application modules across most of the planning pillars such as Supply, Demand ,S&OP, IBP. The rapid response is an market leading product as to how swiftly and effortlessly scenario planning can be kicked by creating scenarios with few clicks. They pioneered the in memory planning and SaaS standards. The team is very talented, open to new ideas and taking everyone along.

Kinaxis is an odd company-- $1 billion dollar valuation, but not a lot of people in Ottawa know about it.

I was pretty shocked at the scope of the product-- it does a lot. There's not a lot of technology buzzwords here, just lots of work on core intellectual property.

Nice thing is that even though the company is successful, everyone is working together, and lots of good cross team interaction.

This company has great management, very approachable and open to ideas. There are many very smart people working here and extremely interesting work to do.
There are many opportunities for growth and advancement. The company is performing very well and rewards it's employees.
Employees get free fruit, gym on site, unlimited vacation etc.
Overall could not imagine a better place to work at.

Technical Support Specialist responsible for assigned customers ensuring that their newly acquired software received proper data mapping from their legacy system and that the installation, training & rollout they received was sufficient to allow easy start-up.

Not good if you are a creative type but if you like engineering culture is probably good. Fairly high turnover for new staff. 

Management is very hierarchical so it you have a bad manager, better find another job situation.

This was an amazing company to work for before the CEO left and the Shareholders forced a profit at all costs ideology. The cost is jobs, which they're actively moving to either India, or replacing with mythical AI solutions.

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