Pros
- BHN is embracing AI which is cool to see. Devs have CoPilot and they're looking into licenses for more advanced AI dev tools. Nice! - Generous time off. If a holiday falls on a Thursday they'll usually give you Friday off "for free" as an employee appreciation day. Their PTO is "unlimited" BUT they seem to frown upon using more than 3 weeks a year (I'm definitely going over so we'll see what happens). - Work life balance is pretty good, I've never worked more than 40 hours a week. If you're at the beginning or near the end of your career and want a stable-ish job with decent pay and don't care about using the latest and greatest tech, BHN is a solid option.
Cons
- I was part of a startup that was acquired by BHN and since they introduced their engineers and processes our system has never been more unstable. We have weekly incidents caused by lack of communication across teams and people just not knowing what they're doing. - The pay is not competitive at all. My startup salary was more than the max range of the job level above me. I was also promoted and received no pay increase (probably due to the previous point). - HR has been a nightmare. Nobody I've talked to knows what they're doing and they are so condescending. Documents have misspellings, inaccurate info, and even my offer letter wasn't correct. It's a miracle my paycheck shows up at all. To verify I9 docs they want you to EMAIL them your sensitive docs which is so insecure and stupid that I thought the email was a phishing attempt. Our startup raised massive concerns over this and they were completely ignored. I don't trust HR to handle my sensitive docs correctly at all. They also repeatedly said things like "If you don't like it, you're free to work somewhere else" and "We didn't have to do this for you guys" which rubbed everyone the wrong way. I can't see myself contacting HR for anything ever because I don't want to deal with them and they talk to everyone like a child. - The culture is BAD and refuses to change. Everybody at the top just claps themselves on the back and ignores the needs of all the peons below them. Our quarterly meetings are mostly pre-recorded nonsense and I don't even bother showing up anymore as none of it means anything. One of our goals for the year is "Innovate"? Wow good job guys. - As a dev, you don't get control of your own machine. They install so much junk on it, it barely works. You have to do MFA 2-4 times in a row when booting up to login, connect to the VPN, etc. - All the tools they use are clunky. BitBucket in 2025? Really? Sharepoint? TEAMS?? This clearly isn't a tech company as they don't care about efficiency. Every change they've made has made me slower at my job and my day-to-day work is so frustratingly slow compared to what it used to be. - No transparency whatsoever. You don't get access to any repos without need to know. Everything is super siloed. Devs will post massive thousand-line MRs in our channel for approval and you won't know who they are, what they're doing in your project's code, or anything that's happening. - Most of their dev workforce is outsourced to other countries which is fine but it's hard to coordinate when there's a 12-hour difference in time zones. Our QA team is 12 hours ahead and are usually sleeping when our changes are going out the door. - I'm not hourly but BHN shuts down between Xmas and New Years and hourly employees either have to take no pay for that week or use a week of their own PTO which is absolutely ridiculous. I'm waiting until my shares vest and then I'm getting out of here. Every day is miserable and somehow keeps getting worse. If you want to climb the corporate ladder and make waves with the latest and greatest tech, do so elsewhere.
