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World Kinect Corporation

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World Kinect Corporation reviews

3.7

65% would recommend to a friend

(698 total reviews)
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Ira Birns

100% approve of CEO

45% positive business outlook

World Kinect Corporation has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 698 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The World Kinect Corporation employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Energie, Bergbau, Versorgungswirtschaft industry (3.7 stars).

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698 reviews
1.0
May 12, 2016

Look elsewhere

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Pros

You can pretend you're working for a Fortune 100 company, but don't expect it to act like one - or fool yourself into believing you can change it.

Cons

This place is a train wreck. Fractured reporting lines, redundancies, lack of accountability, arrogant executives, slow career growth, no common culture/vision - you name it, this place has it. Even if you think you're smart and want to play "big fish, little pond" you'll be faced with the challenge of working in a top-heavy environment where most of the fat-cats have been promoted or hired through nepotism or sucking up to the right people. Nearly everyone seems to have a director title or higher, yet the majority would fail miserably at an executive level in most other companies.

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World Kinect Corporation Response
6y
We appreciate you sharing your experience with us, especially as we continue to streamline our processes across teams. I apologize that we missed the mark during your time with us, thank you for your candid feedback that we will use to evolve our business practices.
1.0
Apr 15, 2016

Don't work there

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Pros

Good benefits, and it is a stable company to work for. It is so large it is not going anywhere soon.

Cons

The management does not car or listen. They have their pets they promote, but if you are not, you're sure to get fired. They promote a very negative environment, and create competition among employees. So much so, it get in the way of productivity. They only care about deadlines, and people are expendable to them.

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World Kinect Corporation Response
6y
We appreciate you sharing this issue with us, especially as we continue to streamline our processes across teams. This begins with the way our managers uphold World Fuel Services’ commitment to communicating with our employees in a reliable, honest, polite and constructive way. I apologize that we missed the mark during your time with us, thank you for your candid feedback that we will use to evolve our management training and hiring practices.
1.0
Mar 23, 2016

The worst.

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Pros

A few good people among the horrible culture. But it's a rarity.

Cons

The IT department is a place that's stuck in about 1990. They still have a heavy reliance on the waterfall development model, and are extremely deadline driven. Nobody cares about software quality, only about pushing software through the hoops at the expense of quality so they can look good because they met their own deadline. Deadlines are paramount, and this is pushed by senior management above all else. Then everything breaks and nobody seems to connect these two obvious points. The same can be said for the IT support where there's constant chaos, and massive failures are a daily occurrence. It's so permeated the culture they think this is normal. (Google Normalization of Deviance to understand this more broadly) The environment is extremely siloed and the culture encourages everyone to avoid any blame whatsoever. People work extremely long hours because the company believes in under-staffing to the extreme. The biggest problem at World is simply they've grown far faster than they can keep up with and don't understand they can't keep doing this. This won't change anytime soon. Employees in IT are extremely diss-empowered. Everything is driven by policy, with a top down management style. The corporate firewall blocks useful things like youtube (Why yes, there's learning material on youtube!) as a matter policy.

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World Kinect Corporation Response
6y
We appreciate you sharing your experience with us, especially as we continue to streamline our processes across teams. I apologize that we missed the mark during your time with us, thank you for your candid feedback that we will use to evolve our business practices.
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