Curious if anyone can shed some light on Kraken’s work life balance and culture. I’ve collected a mixed bag: from [their own podcast series](https://youtu.be/nM3viM58d4A)from 2019, they discuss working weekends and/or holidays and that anyone is looking for a 9-5 probably isn’t a good fit for Kraken. That was from 3 years ago when they had less than 1000 employees. Now they employ over 3000, so things may have changed. I’ve also read from more recent reviews on Glassdoor, Blind, and Indeed that the WLB is actually fairly good for ICs. I’m also aware of the Glassdoor suing situation however, so I take that with a grain of salt. Don’t get me wrong I’m not opposed to putting in a few extra hours here or there when there is a tight deadline or production fire, but repeated and frequent working more than 8 hours sounds like a bad time. So, finally I am looking to see if anyone that has worked there or is currently working there would answer: 1) how is the work life balance? Are you feeing overworked? How many hours do you work per week? Is management understanding of WLB? 2) what is your role or general field?
Yeah this video was why I turned them down years ago. Dude is a nutcase...
Any timestamp worth watching? Don't have 2hrs to spare
We all hate this video. Tbh I'm surprised that it is still up. I thought we were taking it down awhile ago. The WLB section should be completely removed not to mention that this video is way too long. WLB is good. We are globally distributed. Voluntarily working off hours is very rare as someone is almost always online somewhere in the world. In my experience, management is good regarding WLB. Expectations are realistic and more importantly we focus more on results than time-at-desk like some in-office jobs do.
What’s your role if you don’t mind sharing?
I do mind. I'm on the engineering side. That's about all that I'm willing to share.
CEO sounds like a racist sexist transphobic POS from what I've seen on media
Maybe, but definitely an idiot troll at the very least.
Was concerned as well until I watched this podcast: https://youtu.be/UWHLB8YEDeE Seems like a reasonable guy.