Great people, great mission, but overly idealistic leadership
Pros
The mission of the company to serve churches with smart communications and database tools remains solid, and the people who work here are outstanding - each person genuinely strives for growth in virtue and personal excellence.
Cons
The biggest con is salary compensation – it was presented often that Flocknote was a company wanting to support healthy families, so a person working here could expect to eventually support a spouse and children on a single income if they so desired. However, in reality, only software engineers and the leadership team can ever feasibly do so. This, paired with Happiness Engineers having a *very* loose job description, no clarity of expectation for yearly pay raises and bonuses, an internal list of required duties long enough to fill 2-3 full-time positions (all within a "35-hour work week"), and having sabbaticals or parental leaves adversely affect those pay raises/bonuses, makes for a very disappointing realization when a loyal employee spends years waiting for such promises to come to fruition. Leadership seems overly idealistic for what they believe ought to motivate employees, refusing to accept that non-monetary benefits are a nonstarter when Happiness Engineer base salary is embarrassingly below market rate for people doing a fraction of the work with less experience at other companies. I wanted to be a Flocknote lifer, truly. But I stopped being able to believe that sufficient pay was on the horizon, and I wasn't willing to have my family's long-term well being suffer in the meantime.
