Blackbaud reviews

As a manager, it was very frustrating to push my team to keep working harder and harder without any additional compensation. We were always budgeted a very small percentage for cost of living adjustment each year and could rarely push for anyone else to get a larger raise without it being a promotion of title, and even promotions felt like a hunger games to determine who throughout the entire department really deserved the promotion. It was very disheartening as a manager that we could only provide our team with virtual high-fives or badges in WorkDay, but never with anything tangible (aka money). Money is a motivator for many employees and without that, we lost many talented individuals that could go elsewhere and almost immediately double their salary.

For a "social good" company, Blackbaud is incredibly spineless and cowardly, taking the most neutral stances possible on every social issue. It's not possible to do social good while tolerating intolerance. When criticized about having NRA as a customer, Blackbaud announced it would stop matching gun advocacy donations, but it was only later revealed that this was a temporary measure to deal with bad PR. Similarly, after the Roe v. Wade announcement, Blackbaud made it clear that they wanted to equally support employees who were "happy" about the announcement of women's bodily autonomy being taken away. Meanwhile, many other companies are paying upwards of $4k for women to seek reproductive healthcare in other states. Part of why I decided to work for Blackbaud was because of its social good angle. I thought maybe it was less evil than most tech companies, but frankly it's worse.