Going Corpo, Fast - Software Engineer Kraken Employee Review

3.0
Oct 17, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- relative idipendence at an IC level - hyper growth - interesting challenges and products - one of the few remaining bastions of remote work

Cons

- As others pointed out, the original culture is dying as quickly as the company is going full corpo - Senior Leadership (and some middle managers) becoming more and more detached about what it takes to achieve desired goals - Incredible imbalance between teams - Lack of proper HR - Lack of visibility on salary bands - Pushing AI for the sake of using AI

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5.0
Jun 8, 2026
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Pros

Amazing work environment and people

Cons

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4.0
Jun 28, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Great mission, great people, good leadership

Cons

Low pay for Houston area unfortunately

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