Pretentious and hypocritical - Engineer Blackbaud Employee Review

pretentious mission lip service + political correctness + over indexing on diversity and inclusion = incredibly conflicted and political work environment. I’ve never cared for the way Blackbaud markets itself as the purveyor of services for “good”. It’s incredibly pretentious and self serving. Not everyone agrees that the NRA, planned parenthood, SPLC, and that ilk are “good”. Granted there are some truly wonderful causes but painting themselves as being for the cause of good is so hypocritical when what’s really behind the whole enterprise is $€£¥! There’s nothing wrong with free enterprise and market economies; they’ve been the most successful economies at bringing equality and prosperity. But, make no mistake, the culture at Blackbaud is all about hard nosed profiting. If you go there thinking you’re really going to be contributing to the successes of truly sincere non-profit causes, think again. It’s really about making money on the backs of volunteers and givers the world over. Period. All that stuff about “causes” and “good” is a marketing facade for crappy, poorly architected, mediocre, and overpriced software. Blackbaud as a business isn’t interested in truly supporting “good” causes. They’ll sell their software to any ol’ cause so long as there’s a profit to be made!