STAY AWAY - Area Pastor Hope Community Church(NC) Employee Review

Initiative is appreciated, innovation is welcomed, leadership is accessible and willing to empower others.

A larger staff can make it hard for community to form across teams and slow progress.

High end computers, nice offices located near good businesses, good benefits.

It's a culture of back-stabbing and phoniness. Every department trashes one another behind their backs. The only time I saw the staff united was against the doomed podcast - EVERYONE ripped it to pieces and wanted to see it fail. They must have been overjoyed to have watched it happen. They'll bang the "our staff is a family!" drum at interviews, but you won't make one meaningful connection there. Everyone at Hope is out for one thing: Themselves. It's even worse now than when I was there, though, because now they're in survival mode. Tithing is way down, they've laid off or fired over 50 people in the last year, so those who toughed it out are literally the worst of the worst. Avoid working here. It's as bad as you've heard. Ask around. Everyone knows about Hope Community Church.