Start-up operating at net loss with unfinished product - Business Development Manager Koloni Employee Review

1.0
Jan 11, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- "Unlimited" PTO. - Reasonable commission structure. - Empty promises. - Good company to work at if you're an SE, want WFH, and no oversight in a country outside of USA... low pay relative to real companies that actually perform. - Work/life balance high because nobody works, free-for-all, almost no accountability. - AMAZING DEI THOUGH! 5-stars for inclusion.

Cons

- Unorganized team who lack communication. - CRM is a MESS, all workplace tech is second-tier SaaS that has its own problems, customer notes/project notes are scattered, nothing is organized. and nobody knows what's going, the company has a tech stack equivalent to a drop-shipping business that is run by one person with second-rate virtual assistants sourced from Fiverr. - They offer company stock program but no shares were ever granted to me even though I met the tenure period by over 3 months. - No benefits provided besides subpar 401(k) custodian. - Unstable product and software that is not salable. - 6-12 month sales cycle. - Niche product that has low to no demand. - Software regularly crashes causing deals to stall and company resources to be redirected to something easily preventable. - Will terminate if you underperform because you're not selling enough (which is fair) but you can't sell a product that doesn't work, nobody wants, and has a 6-12 month sales cycle. - Koloni has reinvented itself 3x now in effort to conceal past failures. - Regularly has press releases announcing company news that no material impact and is just meant to improve SEO/boost ego. - In my case, -- you get terminated -- they will attempt to block your unemployment insurance claim citing bad behavior or something completely made up - Health insurance is atrocious and it takes the company ~9 months to figure out how to add you to it. - Company has no real departments (HR, accounting, compliance, etc.) - There is literally no rulebook so termination can be completely subjective with no advanced warning (even though it is at-will employment) and since there's no HR you cannot motion to contest.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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5.0
Jan 4, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great work environment we are creating.

Cons

Nothing negative that I can think of at the moment

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