Does Highnote pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Highnote employees rate their compensation and benefits as 4.1 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Highnote. This rating has been stable over the past 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at Highnote?

78% of Highnote employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Highnote 3.8 out of 5 for work life balance, 4.0 for culture and values and 3.9 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Highnote?

Senior Software Engineer (3) , Software Engineer (3)

What are the pros of working at Highnote according to real employee reviews?

"I was kept updated throughout the process and everyone was friendly and courteous." ((in 3 reviews)); "organized steps that kept everything on track and left a positive impression of the company’s culture and values before making a decision on an offer." ((in 3 reviews)); "The leadership team is open to new ideas and encourages you to take on tasks outside of your job description, which gives you the opportunity to develop new skills and gain valuable experience." ((in 2 reviews)); "Founding (and still growing) team is made up of rockstars in the payments industry that will be undoubtedly successful in building and launching the product and business" ((in 2 reviews))

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4.1

78% would recommend to a friend

(21 total reviews)

93% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

4.4

Diversity and inclusion

4.1

Compensation and benefits

4.0

Culture and values

4.0

Senior management

3.9

Career opportunities

3.8

Work/Life balance

Highnote has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 21 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Highnote employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

Reviews by job title

21 reviews

1.0

24 Mar 2025

You don't want to work here

Senior software engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business outlook

Pros

Beautiful office space, 15 minute walk from BART.

Cons

Cult-like work environment where the norm is to work overtime, all the time. Most code is not unit tested. Code is in a monorepo, and not in a good way -- if anyone breaks the build, the entire release is stopped for hours, it's really annoying. I see a lot of code is just copied-and-pasted around; code quality is really low. Not fun to work here, bad culture.

3.0

21 Jun 2022

Coding all day and night

Software engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business outlook

Pros

There are few meetings or interruptions. Company goals are solid. Likely to IPO.

Cons

Infighting between teams. Poor work life balance. Deadlines force sloppy final results.

1.0

31 May 2023

Listen to the red flags

Senior software engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business outlook

Pros

Office in SF provides free food, stocked kitchen.

Cons

Employees constantly kept under pressure leading to tech debt. Recruiters and leadership post fake reviews immediately after a negative review parroting the same "Rockstar team" bs. The office's Google reviews have reviews from employees who have never visited the office. Product is actually not going to pick up as much as people think. Currently it's a fraction of what marqeta offers and marqeta itself is not doing good. Inevitable cost cutting will take place. Almost guaranteed down round next.

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