Company details

HEADCOUNT

100-499

ORG TYPE

Startup

SECTOR

Technology & Digital

WEBSITE

https://www.salonkee.com/

About the company

Salonkee builds vertical SaaS for hair and beauty businesses, covering bookings, calendars, payments and POS, marketing, and team management. The company says Salonkee supports thousands of salons across Europe and pairs the software with hands-on training and free support teams in local markets. Salonkee was founded by five co-founders in 2017 and positions the business as a fast-growing European operator.

Locations and presence

Salonkee lists Luxembourg as the centre of the business and says the company operates across 6 European countries. Public company profiles and funding coverage also point to teams in markets including Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, the Netherlands, and Austria.

Palpable Score

52.4

/ 100

Salonkee is reasonably candidate-friendly on basics like clear culture signals, a formal application route, and a fairly structured interview pattern in public reports. The score is held back by thin, hard-to-verify entry-level role volume and missing pay transparency, plus limited public evidence about junior progression and retention.

Pillar 1: Early-career access

Score

10.0

/ 20

The company’s publicly visible roles skew toward experienced commercial and support profiles, with job ads often asking for prior SaaS tooling or professional experience.
Salonkee has shown some accessible routes via roles framed as “previous work experience or internships” acceptable, such as a marketing fixed-term role that allows internship-level backgrounds.
The company does not publish a stable, browsable list of current openings on the main careers page without dynamic loading, which makes recurring 0–3 year hiring hard to verify from primary sources.

Pillar 2: Hiring fairness and transparency

Score

13.0

/ 20

The company has a visible hiring entry point and a stated selection process, plus repeated “apply today” calls-to-action that route candidates into a formal pipeline.
Salonkee’s publicly shared interview experiences include multi-step flows with an HR screen, a functional interview, and a business case plus senior leadership conversation for some roles.
The company publishes a recruitment privacy policy covering applicant data processing, which is a useful transparency signal, but the company does not publish consistent stage-by-stage timelines on the careers site.

Pillar 3: Learning and support

Score

11.7

/ 20

The company markets a supportive environment and flat hierarchies in job ads, which can be good early-career conditions when paired with regular feedback.
Salonkee offers practical basics like provided equipment and regular company events, which helps juniors feel set up and connected, especially in multi-country teams.
The company does not publicly commit to structured early-career supports like a mentoring scheme, an onboarding ramp plan, or a learning budget that would be easy for graduates to rely on.

Pillar 4: Pay fairness and stability

Score

8.7

/ 20

The company advertises “attractive remuneration packages” and highlights uncapped commission for Sales roles, which can be strong earnings potential but is not pay transparency.
Salonkee’s public job posts and careers pages rarely show salary ranges, so early-career candidates cannot benchmark fairness before committing time to interviews.
The company has mixed third-party pay sentiment in employee reviews, and the review base is small enough that it is hard to treat as reliable pay evidence for junior roles.

Pillar 5: Early-career outcomes

Score

9.0

/ 20

The company has a small, mixed set of employee reviews, including comments that work-life balance depends on team and that management quality can vary.
Salonkee has an external write-up noting early sales churn linked to mismatched expectations, and that the company responded by tightening recruitment to set clearer expectations.
The company does not publish early-career outcomes like time-to-promotion, internal mobility stories for junior hires, or 12–24 month retention, so outcomes are mostly limited to small-sample reviews and second-hand reporting.

Useful links & resources

Careers at Salonkee (overview + perks)Recruitment privacy policy Salonkee interview experiences (Glassdoor)