fulfillment associate

delivery driver

territory manager

field sales representative

account executive

Kiva Confections

The afternoon shift supervisor consistently demonstrates favoritism and nepotistic behavior. Once an employee voices a concern or expresses disagreement even when it is reasonable or work-related the supervisor’s attitude noticeably changes. Employees are treated differently based on personal preference rather than performance or professionalism.

The supervisor’s lead, who is also his close friend, is rarely held accountable. This individual frequently spends time on his phone, avoids responsibilities, and contributes minimal effort, yet faces no consequences. This behavior sets a poor example for the rest of the team and reinforces the idea that favoritism outweighs hard work.

While the supervisor presents himself as supportive and caring, his actions suggest otherwise. Decisions appear to be driven by personal relationships and self-interest rather than fairness, consistency, or team success. As a result, employees who put in genuine effort, show reliability, and take pride in their work are overlooked, undervalued, and discouraged.

This environment creates low morale, resentment among staff, and a lack of motivation to perform at a high level. Accountability is uneven, communication feels unsafe, and employees are less likely to speak up out of fear of being treated unfairly. Over time, this damages team cohesion, productivity, and trust in leadership.

A workplace should reward effort, integrity, and professionalism—not favoritism. Without fair leadership and equal standards, hard-working employees are left feeling unappreciated and disengaged, which ultimately harms both the team and the organization as a whole.


What is the best part of working at the company?
Unfortunately, a good company with bad leadership.  Executive leadership lacks the necessary skills to make this company profitable.  Despite being an extremely great product, underqualified c-suite members are in over their head.  It is the classic case of giving a sports car to a teenager; there is only one, very bad, outcome.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
This is a fairly low stress company.  However, if you value job security, be warned.  They cut employees without notice when the leadership outspends sales. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
It is an excellent culture, minus having to endure being led by wildly unqualified leaders.  Imagine finding out your airplane pilot doesn't know how to fly, but watched some videos about aviation once.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Normally, a day was spent solving problems and trying to make the product better and a great experience for the consumer.  This happened a lot, until you were asked to do tasks that read like a manifesto from an LSD trip in Ibiza, which might have been where the c-suite was as the company was hemorrhaging money.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Work Benefits are offered. Plans are pricey however 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Management are high school friends, who only have interest of themselves. Neptism, gender discrimination also taking place. No potential for career growth. Supervisors are also under qualified and cannot communicate with staff effectively. Quiet hiring also clearly taking place

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Hostile, tense. Staff are afraid to convey concerns to management and staff in fear of retaliation and loss of there job.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Early morning start, frigid air temperature, expectations to performer harder to compensate for lack of trained staff. Staring at the clock waiting for the day to end.

There is so much opportunity to make an impact at Kiva. Although the company is 10 years old, it still has a rapid, startup environment feel. It's not necessarily the right environment for everyone. People coming from a larger company where all steps are defined and everything is done in an exact way will probably have a hard time adjusting. To be successful, you have to be driven, resilient, enjoy putting organization around confusion and understand that there may be frustration along the way as there are many processes that lack definition or are being defined as the company is moving at lightning speed. However, when you are able to help define process or put it into place, it can be incredibly satisfying. The company is growing FAST, coworkers are awesome and I am always proud to say I work at Kiva.

I worked with some great people, but management is extremely incompetent. As with most American companies the only true value here is the time you spend there. They will promote people with no experience because they had been there for longer, but those people literally will have no warehouse or even cannabis experience. Then the promoted non experienced people will mess up leaving you to pretty much create your own systems and watch as management takes credit for those. Pretty standard cannabis warehouse job. If you don’t care about any of that and all you want is to work with some cool people go to work and go home you’ll be fine and will probably enjoy it. If you have any sort of brain or experience in systems, or come from a well organized and optimized warehouse you probably will end up not liking it. 

Tldr: cool people surrounded by snake heads

I enjoyed working here, as the physical labor kept me mentally occupied. That said, there's generally poor communication across management and large amounts of favoritism at play. I had multiple coworkers confused when the company didn't continue my contract as they saw me as a competent employee, contrasted to the employees on other shifts who constantly made mistakes that we had to fix. It did give me opportunities I would have otherwise not gotten, but I felt thrown aside in the end.

Kiva seems like a cool place to work maybe the first month you start there. After a while the poor management skills from the higher ups start to show. Nobody can agree on processes, what the next thing to do will be, or who really is in charge of what. The unofficial motto of Kiva is "Make someone else do it." There is no opportunity for employees to review their supervisors which gives superiors extra room to act unprofessionally towards their employees. If you have complaints they will most likely fall upon deaf ears. HR is only around once a week, and retaliation is rampant.

It’s basically high school everyone here is very immature upper management and your coworkers you work with day to day will gossip and talk mess about you and each other but there’s no real communication if you try to discuss the issues or concerns with the actual job itself. Upper management tries to distract you with freebies but they do not view you as a person just a body. Very unsafe work environment the people who have their forklift certifications do not pay attention to what they’re are doing whatsoever had constant issues with coworkers driving a forklift while texting or being on their phone. 

I have worked at cannabis businesses before and harassment and unprofessionalism has been an issue before, but Kiva definitely takes the cake. Management is inconsistent and lax about enforcing anything or keeping their promises. Due to the mismanagement and disorganization everyone is stressed and at odds with each other. Pay and benefits are well below what they need to be. Only reason you would want to work here is to be paid in cash and get free Kiva products with every paycheck.

A great group of people with good work ethic that are excited about common goals. The Cannabis industry is not an easy one to navigate and thrive in but Kiva has been hiring qualified, experienced and talented team members that create a work environment that is rewarding, motivating and intellectually stimulating. Like any start up environment, it is what you make of it. Challenges can be seen as hurdles or as learning opportunities and perception of your work environment seems to be largely responsible for determining success or failure for most people at Kiva Confections.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Fulfillment associate 16 salaries reported	$20.66 per hour
Delivery driver 17 salaries reported	$23.00 per hour
Territory manager 4 salaries reported	$75,500 per year
Field sales representative 14 salaries reported	$64,758 per year
Account executive 12 salaries reported	$74,250 per year

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