Unfortunately there are a lot of cons here...
Firstly let me say that CKO would encourage people to leave 5 star reviews here, and you can tell when you read a basic "oh life is amazing" review who is behind that.
1. They pitch themselves as the direct competitors to Adyen and Stripe and in culture and tech stack they are not even close. No wonder we could never recruit from those 2 companies.
2. The benefits are below average. Lets just say you start with 24 days of holiday...I've never had less than 25 and in some places 30. Bad start. You do get your bday off(if on weekday) and can accrue up to 2 days more if you are there 2 years or more.
3. The attrition levels are insane. A lot of people don't even make it to a year working there and they are gone. Apparently you need to adapt to the "CKO way".
4. There is a "we are an agile company" and I saw many processes of a startup. The commercial teams barely used a CRM, it was the wild west and people would oversell products not even live, which was bad for the engineers and the CSM teams.
5. As someone has mentioned before the flexidays are obligatory, so if your team is told to come Thursdays and Friday you have to...that doesnt seem like forward thinking.
6. Management and C-level for some reason are mostly from the US and with a SaaS background which has not translated well.
7. There are a lot of the "original" members that think CKO is theirs and own the place, HR never does anything about it even when reported.
8. Many teams are understaffed like finance or operations with teams struggling and leaving because of the pressure.