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Ticker Symbol Entity Name As Of Date Review Url Logo Company Author Title Author Location Author Country Summary Description PROs CONs Recommends Value Recommends Description Outlook Value Outlook Description CEO Review Value CEO Review Description Helpful Count Rating: Overall Rating: Work/Life Balance Rating: Culture & Values Rating: Career Opportunities Rating: Comp & Benefits Rating: Senior Management Rating: Diversity & Inclusion Company Id Company URL Advice to Management Not Helpful Count Employer Responses Employer Status Is featured? Is current job? Job Ending Year Length of Employment Company Website Company Industry Id Company Sector Id Date Added Date Updated Company Name Sector Industry
private:kingfishgroup https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=1124299 Feb 23rd, 2021 12:00AM Open Open Kingfish Group Operations Associate Pune Great Learning Good management, new things to learn Nothing as such. It was a great experience 1.0 POSITIVE 1.0 POSITIVE 0.0 4.0 2.0 4.0 4.0 3.0 5.0 1124299 Open 0.0 [] REGULAR No No 2.0 Mar 15th, 2021 04:32PM Mar 15th, 2021 04:32PM Kingfish Group Financial Services
private:kingfishgroup https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=1124299 Feb 23rd, 2021 12:00AM Open Open Kingfish Group Operations Associate Pune Great place to work Supportive Managers Great company culture Work-life balance Competative compensation Work can get repetitive depending on the role 1.0 POSITIVE 1.0 POSITIVE 0.0 5.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1124299 Open 0.0 [] REGULAR No No 2.0 Mar 15th, 2021 04:32PM Mar 15th, 2021 04:32PM Kingfish Group Financial Services
private:kingfishgroup https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=1124299 Jan 8th, 2021 12:00AM Open Open Kingfish Group Principal San Francisco, CA Glorified GLG with Limited Exit Opportunities Nice offices, most employees are nice and fun to work with. REPETITIVE WORK. Kingfish likes to say it is a Private Equity firm, far from it. Kingfish is conning executives with the promise of Board and CEO positions while pumping them for information on behalf of real private equity firms. All day long you send emails to executives and get on calls with them to find out as much information about a company or industry as you can. For all this work, Kingfish gets thrown scraps of co-investment along real PE firms. Management has sold a great story to the lower level employees but unable to deliver on any promises. Unless you have a finance background and blue-chip names on your resume before Kingfish, your exit opportunities will be limited. Just look at LinkedIn. I am also certain that Kingfish is removing negative reviews because there have been many more in the past. IF YOU ARE THINKING OF JOINING KINGFISH REACH OUT TO PAST EMPLOYEES FOR ADVICE. -1.0 NEGATIVE 0.0 NEUTRAL 5.0 2.0 2.0 2.0 1.0 3.0 2.0 1124299 Open 0.0 [] REGULAR No No 2.0 Mar 15th, 2021 04:32PM Mar 15th, 2021 04:32PM Kingfish Group Financial Services
private:kingfishgroup https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=1124299 Jan 6th, 2021 12:00AM Open Open Kingfish Group Associate United States USA Good place to work Good people, good hours, interesting work Work gets repetitive over time 1.0 POSITIVE 0.0 5.0 5.0 5.0 5.0 5.0 5.0 1124299 Open 0.0 [] REGULAR No No 4.0 Mar 15th, 2021 04:32PM Mar 15th, 2021 04:32PM Kingfish Group Financial Services
private:kingfishgroup https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=1124299 Jan 6th, 2021 12:00AM Open Open Kingfish Group Research Associate Pune Good Experience and Amazing work culture 1. Work culture is very good 2. Gets appreciated for your work 3. Monetary incentive is less 1.0 POSITIVE 1.0 POSITIVE 0.0 5.0 5.0 5.0 5.0 3.0 5.0 1124299 Open 0.0 [] REGULAR No Yes 2.0 Mar 15th, 2021 04:32PM Mar 15th, 2021 04:32PM Kingfish Group Financial Services
private:kingfishgroup https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=1124299 Dec 26th, 2020 12:00AM Open Open Kingfish Group Los Angeles, CA Charlatans, Inc. Funny name, nice website, fancy office It's called Kingfish for a reason - they fish for executives. Your days will revolve around reaching out to executives of interest, getting them on the phone for a screening conversation, transcribing call notes, editing calendar invites, etc. Since executive search work is highly unaccretive, working here feels like being a hamster trapped in a hamster wheel, constantly chasing down the next executive (8am to 9pm or later). It's a lot of work for a business that, I believe, is fundamentally running in place. The proof is in the pudding - in my opinion, the firm has been in existence for close to two decades now and has been running around itself, unable to meaningfully scale during this time.  I would caution against buying into the standard pitch, which to paraphrase, goes something like: "We're a growing lower middle market private equity firm," "We're a thought-partner and co-investor alongside other top performing private equity firms" or "We're a startup/We've changed a lot over the past few years." While the firm has some money to invest, it struck me as delusional - borderline fraudulent - to call this a private equity firm. There is a strong tendency to use obfuscating language which makes this hard to see from the outside - referring to clients as partners, calling executive search the platform team, etc. From what I can tell, there is a lot of believing in their own lies/marketing here, which perpetuates major business and strategic problems and causes a lot of people to leave. For whatever infinitesimal portion of the work which was investing/finance related, the entire exercise felt forced and amateurish. As far as I can tell, you will not be given the tools, training, or information necessary to succeed and therefore will likely parrot back what you've heard from the private equity client as your own "point of view." In my opinion - amateurs and charlatans run amok. It seemed to me that a lot of the folks at Kingfish weren't informed or savvy enough to call out the nonsense. The ones who were, tended to exit fairly quickly (LinkedIn is littered). If you ask me, odds are you will be stuck with foolish managers and peers, who are doggedly process-driven and willing to push the "marketing" envelope into uncomfortable territory. Overall, I believe this is a poorly performing executive search firm with no credible business strategy, limited skill development/exit options, and a serious ethics problem in describing who they are and what they do. -1.0 NEGATIVE -1.0 NEGATIVE 9.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1124299 Open 0.0 [] REGULAR No No 1.0 Mar 15th, 2021 04:32PM Mar 15th, 2021 04:32PM Kingfish Group Financial Services
private:kingfishgroup https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=1124299 Dec 20th, 2020 12:00AM Open Open Kingfish Group Former Employee - Anonymous Employee San Jose, CA Bad bad bad Funny name, nice website, fancy office It's called Kingfish for a reason - they fish for executives. Your days will revolve around reaching out to executives of interest, getting them on the phone for a screening conversation, transcribing call notes, editing calendar invites, etc. Since executive search work is highly unaccretive, working here feels like being a hamster trapped in a hamster wheel, constantly chasing down the next executive (8am to 9pm or later). It's a lot of work for a business that, I believe, is fundamentally running in place. The proof is in the pudding - in my opinion, the firm has been in existence for close to two decades now and has been running around itself, unable to meaningfully scale during this time.  I would caution against buying into the standard pitch, which to paraphrase, goes something like: "We're a growing lower middle market private equity firm," "We're a thought-partner and co-investor alongside other top performing private equity firms" or "We're a startup/We've changed a lot over the past few years." While the firm has some money to invest, it struck me as delusional - borderline fraudulent - to call this a private equity firm. There is a strong tendency to use obfuscating language which makes this hard to see from the outside - referring to clients as partners, calling executive search the platform team, etc. From what I can tell, there is a lot of believing in their own lies/marketing here, which perpetuates major business and strategic problems and causes a lot of people to leave. For whatever infinitesimal portion of the work which was investing/finance related, the entire exercise felt forced and amateurish. As far as I can tell, you will not be given the tools, training, or information necessary to succeed and therefore will likely parrot back what you've heard from the private equity client as your own "point of view." In my opinion - amateurs and charlatans run amok.  It seemed to me that a lot of the folks at Kingfish weren't informed or savvy enough to call out the nonsense. The ones who were, tended to exit fairly quickly (LinkedIn is littered). If you ask me, odds are you will be stuck with foolish managers and peers, who are doggedly process-driven and willing to push the "marketing" envelope into uncomfortable territory.  Overall, I believe this is a poorly performing executive search firm with no credible business strategy, limited skill development/exit options, and a serious ethics problem in describing who they are and what they do. -1.0 NEGATIVE -1.0 NEGATIVE 6.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1124299 Open 0.0 [] REGULAR No No 1.0 Mar 15th, 2021 04:32PM Mar 15th, 2021 04:32PM Kingfish Group Financial Services
private:kingfishgroup https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=1124299 Nov 25th, 2020 12:00AM Open Open Kingfish Group Research Associate Pune Mixed Bag Great Culture. Great HR . Opportunity to learn and grow Lack of Hierarchy. Lack of transferable skills 0.0 NEUTRAL 0.0 3.0 5.0 5.0 2.0 3.0 5.0 1124299 Open 0.0 [] REGULAR No Yes 1.0 Mar 15th, 2021 04:32PM Mar 15th, 2021 04:32PM Kingfish Group Financial Services
private:kingfishgroup https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=1124299 Nov 4th, 2020 12:00AM Open Open Kingfish Group Senior Research Associate India IND Great Company The company has got a great culture. People are really supportive and you can reach out for help to anyone. The pressure to constantly raise the bar becomes concerning after a point 0.0 5.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1124299 Open 0.0 [] REGULAR No No 2.0 Mar 15th, 2021 04:32PM Mar 15th, 2021 04:32PM Kingfish Group Financial Services
private:kingfishgroup https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=1124299 Oct 20th, 2020 12:00AM Open Open Kingfish Group Principal United States USA Limited Exit Opportunities Interesting deals and interactions with senior individuals Traditional recruiting targets for associates have historically been 1-5 year out of undergrad investment bankers and consultants. Individuals with 0-1 years of experience will likely learn a meaningful amount. Limited role diversity makes it challenging to learn with more experience than that. Leadership often vies for control of the organization leading to a challenging political environment. This is a 2-years and you'll likely be pushed out culture, in particular by specific members of leadership. I would not recommend as there are limited exit opportunities. Inspection of former employees should help highlight this with the exception of the team members in India who likely could perform the job functions for this firm at a much cheaper price point than US based practitioners. Glorified GLG. -1.0 NEGATIVE 0.0 NEUTRAL 5.0 1.0 5.0 3.0 1.0 3.0 2.0 1124299 Open 0.0 [] REGULAR No No 0.0 Mar 15th, 2021 04:32PM Mar 15th, 2021 04:32PM Kingfish Group Financial Services

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