Serious Challenges Ahead - Anonymous employee Keypath Education Employee Review

2.0
12 Sept 2016
Anonymous employee
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Pros

The recurring theme with Keypath is "The People are Great". This is true. They have a lot of very talented and enjoyable people to work with. Most the managers are very flexible about time off and a good work/life ratio. It's a very casual environment. You can wear shorts & t-shirts as long as there's nothing obscene.

Cons

The emphasis is on the services being offered in the Palatine office while the "fee for service" portion of the business in the Lenexa office is being left to wither and die with its failing clients. Palatine grows by leaps and bounds while Lenexa has multiple layoffs in a year. They have toxic relationships with their "fee for service" clients. Their clients don't respect them. They ignore Keypath's advice, then put the blame on Keypath when they don't meet numbers, and Keypath is apparently okay with it. They also put way too much emphasis on the account teams. Their product suffers because they pay to have bloated account teams, but farm out most of the work that goes into to creating their actual products. A couple years ago, they put all emphasis on education and dumped non-education clients made, which lead to the name change from Plattform to Keypath. This made sense for the OPM team, but left the "fee for service" teams with a dying market to struggle with.

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Keypath Education Response
9y
Thanks for your comments and I take them very seriously. We strive every day to improve our company to adapt to the evolving education environment. Not going to re-hash an old debate about our other locations. We built a new business in Palatine, Australia, UK and Canada to launch and manage OPM. It is a strategy to diversify our business model, not to forget about our fee for services teams. We will agree to disagree on our best practices and strategies. These are in place, and all the employees are working very hard to implement. Agree on our people! Wonderful attitudes and have kept the company moving forward while we evolve our business model.. Good luck on your future.

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Thank you for sharing your experience. We’re sorry this situation was disappointing, particularly given how meaningful this trip was. PTO guidelines, including expectations for new hires, are reviewed during onboarding, and we encourage early discussion of any pre‑planned commitments. We appreciate the feedback and wish you all the best going forward
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