Element K Reviews

I worked at Element K full-time for more than a year

Pros – No dress code and casual atmosphere. Great people.

Cons – Production likely suffered from the laid back culture

Advice to Senior Management – Don't sell the company....never mind

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I worked at Element K full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Smart, hardworking, loyal employees
Flexibility
Great friendships
Good tools and processes

Cons – Low salary
Changing management
Growth/advancement was slow

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

I have been working at Element K

Pros – Relaxed dress code - shorts in the summer.
Flexible hours - management is very understanding about family and health time off and making up time on another day.
Intelligent, friendly people and very little politics.
They pay a large percentage of health insurance premiums and offer a very nice plan.

Cons – Little incentive provided in any way - no bonuses, only token recognition at poorly attended staff meetings, few regular raises.
Poor middle and upper management. Many inexperienced managers and many managers working outside of their specialty.

Advice to Senior Management – Make more of an effort to appropriately qualify accounts while maintaining reasonable customer expectations. A US based workforce can not compete with overseas based companies on price, you need to compete on quality and service. When you over-promise and under-deliver, while managers who are working beyond their training and expertise are simultaneously not listening to the workers 'in the trenches', you end up with poor customer retention, non-existent margins, and a downward spiral for a business.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Element K

Pros – There are some really great people that work at EK. They have some of the most intelligent engineers as well as some very creative people. They have a few really great people in middle to upper management. The pay is decent and the benefits are fairly decent. EK has a lot of upside potential.

Cons – Some departments have terrible managers. Don't even bother trying to negotiate compensation package. Old technology, overworked staff in certain departments.

Advice to Senior Management – What is our vision? How are our actions aligned with our vision, mission, and goals?

I worked at Element K

Pros – Depending on your position, they allow a lot of freedom, such as working from home. they don't watch you over your shoulder all day as long as you're getting your work done.

Cons – They just laid off 30% of the workforce. A lot of work gets sent to India. Inconsistent cash flow into the organization. Definitely a company getting punded by the economy.

Advice to Senior Management – Focus more on quality and get back to basics. Stop worrying so much about landing the big contract and put more energy into the small businesses that cannot afford a training dept of their own.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I have been working at Element K

Pros – Fellow employess are good people, which makes for a fun work environment. Hours are pretty flexible, too.

Cons – Poor pay, and the technologies we use are years behind what's current in the industry. Your career will die here. Also, we lose money on a lot of the deals we agree to with clients (and many are way too smalltime). We'll actually lose big money just to add a client to our portfolio. Also, everything we do is rushed, with no planning.

Advice to Senior Management – Enable us to get up to date with the tools we use, pay us the going rate.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

I worked at Element K full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – element k is very well processed company which gives the best quality of output to the customers

Cons – I didn't see any downside working with ek because if the work is completed on deliverable time, then no cons

I have been working at Element K

Pros – Casual work environment, nice colleagues, good work home life balance

Cons – promotions not based on achievements
company is not well know or respected
embarrassing to work for a company that is Indian owned

Advice to Senior Management – Promote from within based on achievements