Great people, great mission, but overly idealistic leadership - Happiness Engineer Flocknote Employee Review

2.0
10 Jan 2025
Recommend
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Pros

The mission of the company to serve churches with smart communications and database tools remains solid, and the people who work here are outstanding - each person genuinely strives for growth in virtue and personal excellence.

Cons

The biggest con is salary compensation – it was presented often that Flocknote was a company wanting to support healthy families, so a person working here could expect to eventually support a spouse and children on a single income if they so desired. However, in reality, only software engineers and the leadership team can ever feasibly do so. This, paired with Happiness Engineers having a *very* loose job description, no clarity of expectation for yearly pay raises and bonuses, an internal list of required duties long enough to fill 2-3 full-time positions (all within a "35-hour work week"), and having sabbaticals or parental leaves adversely affect those pay raises/bonuses, makes for a very disappointing realization when a loyal employee spends years waiting for such promises to come to fruition. Leadership seems overly idealistic for what they believe ought to motivate employees, refusing to accept that non-monetary benefits are a nonstarter when Happiness Engineer base salary is embarrassingly below market rate for people doing a fraction of the work with less experience at other companies. I wanted to be a Flocknote lifer, truly. But I stopped being able to believe that sufficient pay was on the horizon, and I wasn't willing to have my family's long-term well being suffer in the meantime.

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5.0
20 Dec 2023
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Pros

Such a happy place to be!

Cons

Remote work can be taxing.

5.0
8 Nov 2022
Recommend
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Pros

It is both remote and a company where you feel like you have real relationships with your coworkers. They have done a good job so far keeping a sense of culture and fun through the 2-3 in-person events per year as well as the regular online events that happen. While a giant company may offer more benefits or cheaper insurance, Flocknote has been very thoughtful about what they offer to make sure their employees feel valued. They regularly ask for feedback on how they can improve what they offer. I genuinely feel like the company is going out of its way to try to be generous with their employees and offering the best benefits packages they can for a company their size. Being smaller means leadership is accessible and are actively interested to hear input from employees. And there is a ton of transparency about where the company is going and how it is doing. People are nice to each other. They help and support one another. I've never encountered behind the scenes politicking or gossiping. It's a really positive place to work.

Cons

There is some travel involved for the 2-3 in person events each year. Most people look forward to those events, but if you want a 100% remote job, this isn't quite that. The culture and branding can be really goofy. It has worn off on me and I like it. But I can imagine someone finding it off putting.

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