Great talent; mis-aligned organization - Senior Software Engineer Blackbaud Employee Review

3.0
Dec 30, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Lots of areas to make an impact as an individual contributor. Opportunities to design, develop, maintain, and support Greenfield micro services with an awesome engineering system in place. Great place to learn if you are self-motivated

Cons

Engineers aren't incentivized well enough to care about the business targets / outcomes, so they naturally don't really care. This leads to lots of fluff and waste being created that doesn't improve customer satisfaction. So many "shiny new things" that get local praise, but then business / senior leadership isn't able to produce results that improve customer satisfaction because people are building things customers aren't asking for. This is definitely a culture where you can be kind and coast by for decades without really innovating and growing. It can be difficult to work on teams because many of the other folks simply are maintaining the status quo and are resistant to any sort of change

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5.0
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Pros

I enjoy working for the company

Cons

The people are great to work with.

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Blackbaud Response
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Thanks for your review! We appreciate you taking the time to tell us about your experience working at Blackbaud. One of our best assets is our company culture, and that starts first with our people. We pride ourselves on the amazing individuals that we get to work with everyday! Thanks again for sharing your experience!
1.0
Jul 8, 2026
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Pros

Decent pay, remote work flexibility, you get to work with some very talented folks.

Cons

Used to be proud to work for Blackbaud but that has all but disappeared in last 2 years. Poor and ineffective leadership, false transparency, frequent layoffs, bonuses based off of stock which has been tanking. It's a sinking ship. Avoid at all costs.

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