Most of the Kendo UI Widgets are initialized in a timeout, in order for the ng-model/k-ng-model to work as expected. This is not a perfect solution, but we are gradually removing that implementation where possible. Meanwhile, you can use the kendoRendered event for testing purposes. In fact, you can check some of the tests in the Kendo UI Core repository for that approach.
Regards,
Petyo
Telerik
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