Great if you're into one-upping each other to survive - Senior Software Engineer Flock Employee Review

1.0
20 Aug 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Pay was inline with industry norms. Interesting tech: drones, LPR & video surveillance cameras. One-time stipend given to upgrade your remote office gear.

Cons

Team members compete against each other for attention in meetings and for fixing endless production issues. Hero culture - your value is proportional to the number of things you can fix and the how much time you spend talking and making suggestions in daily meetings. Meetings rarely result in useful solutions, changes or ways to proceed. Dev teams are siloed, hardware and backend architecture is fundamentally broken, undocumented and needlessly complex. A ton of reinventing or hacking of open source libraries, protocols, etc. Devs drop assigned work and work on things they think will give them the most praise/value. Management forces pushing incomplete, under-tested firmware/software into production. Getting "let go" is stealthy, sudden an brutal - no severance.

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5.0
16 June 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Outside of working in the nonprofit space, Flock is the most mission oriented job I have ever had. Every person I have worked with here has an intense passion for public safety and helping survivors of crime alongside an intense passion for ensuring community values are maintained alongside that. Creativity in problem solving is encouraged, I have yet to see a supervisor who is threatened by one of their team members coming up with innovative ways to build our their program or improve the organization. I have found Flock to be a great place to be supported in my professional development and not be boxed into mindless corporate bureaucracy that kills passion and creativity.

Cons

Those that need rigid structure in order to succeed will not succeed at Flock. There are absolutely metrics and goals that need to be achieved but you will not be hand-held. Those who succeed are the ones who move both decisively and strategically accepting a mistake may be made. Those who will not succeed are those who move slowly but but require perfection. Given the high-profile nature of the work, grit and resilience are definitely required.

3.0
17 June 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Steady hours and solid experience building out regional tracking networks. You get to work independently on the ground most of the time.

Cons

Massive scope creep with zero additional compensation. They increased the physical labor requirements significantly—shifting from digging standard 30-inch holes to digging 42-48 inch deep holes reinforced with rebar and four bags of concrete—while keeping the pay exactly the same.On top of that, logistics are awful. They closed down local supply hubs, forcing massive weekly driving distances just to fetch basic equipment, yet scheduling was so uncoordinated it took them weeks to stop assigning full workloads on supply-run days.Supervisors act like mindless "company men." I was left on read while experiencing severe heat exhaustion symptoms in 100+ degree heat just so a supervisor could check daily production metrics. They treat field techs like disposable machinery, expect brutal days with hours of exhausting driving through remote territories, and offer zero operational support. Even after you leave, offboarding is broken; internal IT support analysts ignore their own logistics vendors, leaving automated systems to spam former employees for weeks about equipment they don't have.

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