Blackhawk Network reviews

3.3

56% would recommend to a friend

(953 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 953 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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953 reviews
2.0
Feb 17, 2021

Just meh

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

There was unlimited PTO and good if not pricey health insurance. There are really good people who still work there.

Cons

Upper management only focused on M&A, sales, lowering costs. BH is owned by private equity. There is little to no bonus outside of sales functions. There is no employee equity program and a weak 401k match. There is a large focus on shifting engineering from US based engineers to India and other low cost centers. Absolutely no clear communication or direction on company strategy, except that BH will continue to acquire more companies. There was so much squandered potential.

1.0
Feb 14, 2021

If you value your mental health and family, look elsewhere

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

If you live in Tri-Valley, then commute. Lots of food in the office which no longer a benefit since WFH.

Cons

Avoid this place at all cost! If you value your mental health and family, look elsewhere. The FP&A department is unprofessional, toxic, disorganized and unstructured. A new management in Finance has no experience on being a leader. The employee turnover is unusually high. Good employees leave in a hurry while the bad ones linger. New employees are expected to run independently on week one. There’re little trainings and directions. If your manager offers training, then you’re the lucky one. But don’t expect this good manager to stay long. The amount of redundancy, manual works and missing information are off the chart. Company has no good processes and procedures. Everything is ad-hoc and due today. We redo and reanalyze one subject over and over again, oftentimes not knowing what the end goal is. Company is cutting expenses in the wrong places, laying off necessary workforce and piling up on directors and VPs who cost 3-4x higher that people they just laid off. With the shrinking workforce, staffs are subjected to long working hours, often more than 12 hours a day, expected to attend meetings, answer emails, IMs, phone calls at ungodly hours. All the abuse for a minuscule amount of pay and merit. No wonder Finance department is a constant revolving door. Unlimited PTO policy has become unattainable PTO policy. This one sucks. Thanks to the policy, I didn’t get to cash out my PTOs

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