A great disappointment - Anonymous employee Blackbaud Employee Review

2.0
20 Jan 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Benefits are fantastic. 401k and Insurance. Office location is great in the N. Austin area, easy access to the transit system.

Cons

Ambitions are there but fail to implement. New hires in Austin within various departments offer input to change the past negative culture. This was encouraged as they finally consolidated positions after years of acquisitions. When suggestions to improve processes and policies team member were litterally laughed at or simply ignored. Also, training is offerred but there is a lack of documentation on what they want so when someone messses up or makes a simple mistake they can easily criticize ones work or even a department. After months of following a 'trained' process my manager retracts what was said and finally offers more details to what is needed. It is until this manager is in the hot seat that we are throne under the bus with a mass email on what we are doing wrong. This is constant and frustrating as we are simply trying to do our job the 'right' way but when misled for weeks to months it is greatly discouraging. Tools are far outdated by at least 10 years and implementation of a new monitoring tool stalled. For an IT company people in other locations hate being bothered off hours or on weekends. My question is didn't these people choose their career? If you don't like it move onto another company and let everyone else get back to work and help the client.

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5.0
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Pros

Was able to grow professionally, and be pushed to be the best employee possible

Cons

Honestly, at the time there weren’t many cons.

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Blackbaud Response
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Thank you for your positive feedback! We’re thrilled to hear that you were able to grow professionally at Blackbaud and felt supported in becoming the best employee you could be. Investing in the growth and wellbeing of our people—emotionally, socially, financially, physically, and intellectually—is core to who we are.
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Remote First company with a dedication to mission and values across the non-profit sector.

Cons

Tough to advance with such longevity among senior leaders.

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