Blackhawk Network reviews

3.3

56% would recommend to a friend

(952 total reviews)
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Talbott Roche

72% approve of CEO

48% positive business outlook

Blackhawk Network has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 952 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Blackhawk Network employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Financial Services industry (3.6 stars).

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1.0
Dec 21, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Location. If you live around the tri-valley area.

Cons

1. Political cesspool. The political culture has been there for too long to change. You have someone with just a few years of IT experience gets promoted all the way to the top simply because being able to "talk pretty" more than anything else. When a company promotes an individual like that it does 2 things: 1. It shows as long as you can talk and play political games you get ahead. 2. It promotes the political culture and worsens the problem. As a result, almost every manager has to learn how to play the game to survive so they learn from their boss - undercut peers when they're in the way, get ahead by stepping on other people, haze their employees to get whatever they want.., etc. The list just goes on and on. And when you look at the problems and try to understand the root cause, you realize they all start from one source. The only way to advance in this organization is by playing their game and get into the clique. You may say it's more or less the same in every company but trust me, you have seen nothing yet unitl you join BHN. 2. Inexperience managers. The number of managers at this small company is simply amazing and because of the fact they're inexperience, they can't or don't know how to stand up to their bosses and eventually succumb to the sickening culture and become of the problems. These are the two major problems with BHN and everything negative about this place seems to derive from them. So you have low morale, employees feeling disrespected, overworked employees, public hazing and bad mouthing... If you're considering joinin BHN, do yourself a favor, ask around before you make the decision.

1.0
Oct 27, 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good location... some very smart employees... (i wonder why they're staying there)

Cons

1) A lot of stup1d/clueless employees. This is because the Management forced the hiring Managers to hire warm bodies so whoever gets in the door can get the job no matter how dum8 the person is. 2) The CF0 manges the CT0 and Ci0... on a company that is solely dependent on IT Services, budget is not being spent well. 3) Too much politics. 4) The Infrastructure Operations is very incompetent except for a few. 5) No chance for promotion or raise unless you know someone from higher Management. 6) Bad compensation overall.

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