Kensho Technologies reviews

Elitism driven by Harvard/MIT boys club: Kensho talks about top talents from Harvard & MIT. True, but that’s all they offer. They excessively recruit from Harvard physics / MIT and it is all that is - straight out of the school. They feel very special and don’t hesitate to look down of everyone else, other colleagues within Kensho and colleagues from S&P Global. The sentiment is so negative and people are fleeing from the company, if they could. Backstabbing culture: there is no loyalty in Kensho. Along the way, Kensho fired two CTO (yes, they agreed to leave in a good terms, but we know what it is) when they disagreed to CEO/COO. One could be a superstar today, he could get fired tomorrow - there was a case that they fired an engineer who gave a notice to leave. Up until they fire an employee, they demand a lot, claiming they offer an opportunity to stretch - not sure you would want to be stretched. And then once they see no more use, they let people go. For example, they fired an office manager right after they move to a new office. She did almost everything to arrange the move and after the move was over, they let her go. You would only be a pawn. No substance in all of their claims - it is only a sales pitch: Kensho is built around its founder’s considerable sales skill, not around its technology. He saw the opportunity in ML/AI field and sold the idea to S&P Global. Unfortunately, they don’t have the technology and they are not capable of delivering. Still they talk big and claim they deserve better because they are smarter. Until I was there, it was not well received by S&P Global and we were called a cocky elite group. After all, most of them are right out of school with very limited industry experience.