Company details

HEADCOUNT

25-99

ORG TYPE

Startup

SECTOR

Technology & Digital

WEBSITE

https://www.kovalee.com

About the company

Kovalee is a Paris-based mobile app publisher that partners with app creators and scales apps through user acquisition, app store optimisation, monetisation, creative production, and product improvements. Kovalee describes a profit-sharing model where Kovalee funds growth activities and then takes a share of profits. Public hiring pages position Kovalee as a lean, international team working mainly in English, with a hybrid setup and some remote hiring. Current open roles skew heavily toward senior technical hires, with one internship listed.

Locations and presence

Kovalee is centred in Paris (office in the 10th arrondissement) and also hires remotely for some roles. Several listings limit remote candidates to roughly ±2 hours of Paris time and require existing work authorisation.

Palpable Score

52.8

/ 100

Kovalee’s early-career access is narrow right now, with an internship as the main visible entry point and most open roles requiring 5+ years. Hiring transparency and respect look uneven based on public interview accounts, and the company publishes little measurable evidence of junior progression or retention.

Pillar 1: Early-career access

Score

8.7

/ 20

The company’s live openings include an on-site UGC Community Manager internship, but the rest of the visible pipeline is senior engineering and senior data roles.
Kovalee’s Senior Data Engineer role includes managing and mentoring a Junior Data Engineer, which suggests junior roles exist inside the team even if they are not currently open.
The company does not show recurring 0–3 year roles across functions, and there is no visible graduate scheme or rotating internship intake.

Pillar 2: Hiring fairness and transparency

Score

12.8

/ 20

The company publicly discloses using AI tools to support parts of recruitment and clarifies that final hiring decisions are made by humans.
Kovalee’s public interview reports include a take-home case study and a live design challenge stage, which can be fair when well-scoped but is a higher burden for early-career candidates.
The company has candidate feedback describing weak follow-up and interviewers arriving unprepared for a submitted case study, which hurts trust in process consistency.

Pillar 3: Learning and support

Score

12.0

/ 20

The company builds explicit coaching responsibility into the Senior Data Engineer role via mentoring a Junior Data Engineer.
Kovalee positions work as high-ownership in a lean team, which can create fast learning through exposure, but also increases the risk of unclear guardrails for first-job hires.
The company does not publish concrete onboarding or progression structures (for example a 30-60-90 ramp, assigned mentors by default, or levelled growth frameworks) in the role pages reviewed.

Pillar 4: Pay fairness and stability

Score

9.8

/ 20

The company’s public job ads reviewed do not publish salary bands, including the internship listing, which makes pay fairness hard to judge before applying.
Kovalee has third-party salary submissions that include an annual figure for a Content Intern role, giving at least one early-career pay reference point.
The company gets some credit for stability signals raised in employee reviews, including a remote policy and generous PTO, but benefits and equity for juniors are not clearly set out in postings.

Pillar 5: Early-career outcomes

Score

9.5

/ 20

The company has a small Glassdoor review sample with sharply mixed sentiment, including one review praising remote policy and transparency and another alleging toxic culture and weak management.
Kovalee’s public interview metrics show a low share of positive experiences and multiple accounts of poor follow-up, which can correlate with weaker candidate outcomes for juniors.
The company’s LinkedIn headcount band and public hiring footprint suggest a small scaling team, but there is no published data on junior promotions, retention over 12–24 months, or intern-to-full-time conversion.