Akerna reviews

2.0

24% would recommend to a friend

(35 total reviews)

Jessica Billingsley

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15% positive business outlook

Akerna has an employee rating of 2.0 out of 5 stars, based on 35 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a poor working experience there. The Akerna employee rating is 48% below average for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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35 reviews
2.0
Aug 6, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Unlimited PTO I felt comfortable using Remote (even pre covid) Worked with a lot of great people (though many I knew here are now gone) I worked on a variety of tools, and was able to pad my resume very nicely in this position.

Cons

The toxic work culture comes from the top and permeates the whole company. I did not feel comfortable pushing back on things further than with my immediate supervisor - and even he would not push back on much - I became familiar with being told “it’s what the business wants”. Also, time was tracked and focused on way too much (technically we used story points, not tracking time... but it was tracking time), to the point where if I spent an hour explaining something to a peer, I would create a ticket for it and mark it done! I was hired with a group of others, in total there were 5 QA Automation Engineers hired to bring the automation in-house. By 15 months later, all 5 had either quit or been fired. This turnover is not particularly uncommon in the company.

1.0
Apr 1, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

None what so ever. Seriously

Cons

Read John Prentice of Ample Organics’ assessment. Spot on. This entire company is the ego party of one women who thinks she’s a celebrity.

1.0
Oct 1, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

I worked at this company both during their time as MJ Freeway and the transition to Akerna, so wanted to make sure my review applies to both companies its a copy/paste - Interesting problems to solve, while they are not net new problems in the world they do require unique solves in the context of cannabis - The lower teams and some middle management honestly cares and wants the best for their teams and customers

Cons

- A toxic workplace is definite reality primarily from leadership down. I was often yelled at, threatened, or just insulted for voicing my opinion; which revolved around the asking 'why are we working on this over other competing priorities?' 'if we pivot to work on this can we deprioritize the other work to not put it at risk or overload the team?' 'The team is overloaded and morale is down can we hire additional resources?' - Upper level management is not 'available' to direct reports. I would often go weeks if not a full 2 months without having any personal time with my manager. Meetings were scheduled and they would be either 25 mins late to a 30 min meeting with me waiting for them in their office (not responding to messages) or schedule over our time every week and push to the next week in perpituity. - Time management is non-existant, some weeks i would be in 30-35 hours of meetings a week (some of which were about how do we reduce meeting fatigue and get more async with little to no gain on solving this problem)/ - Buzzwords are king, i have never worked at place that loved the use of buzzwords to point of not making any sense. If a problem occured the response was often insert 'buzzword' will make this not happen again. On the occasions i would ask, are we sure that will solve the problem or what is your definition of that word because i don't think they are related. Comically the most common response was; 'i am not sure what that means but was told to tell the teams and clients it will fix everything' - Sales teams would often lie to the point of absurdity. I totally understand having to flex a bit to make the sale but when a sale is closed against functions that don't exist but are not even planned, it puts the teams into really bad spots that breeds antimocity (especially when you sit next to eachother and hear yourself being thrown under the bus)

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