Hawk Ridge Systems reviews about "pay"

not really a con for me personally, but the company is consistently growing so with that changes are pretty frequent. So this may be something to consider it you dislike frequently changes at work

-Low pay and benefits -Lack of culture.

unprofessional, poor advancement options, pay cuts often. Not worth the tireless effort

The company is growing so there are the occasional growing pains

Pay reduction by 40% from 2023 to 2024 and getting worse. 6 month paid time off blackout. Clueless top heavy management. Core values contradict actual environment. Would NEVER recommend. Hiring contractors from El Salvador because they are cheap

They don't pay competitively, benefits are just OK, and they recently laid people off

Senior leadership that doesn't listen, processes that don't work, constant changes for the sake of change, departments rarely work in harmony, the same pay for years while quota has doubled, a marketing team that doesn't know how to market, a sales ops team that doesn't know operations, leadership that doesn't know how to lead. This company can't figure out the basics and is always changing what they offer, it reeks of desperation. The work environment is the exact opposite of the culture and values they love to talk about. Hawk Ridge grew too fast and borrowed money to buy other companies to sell in new states, solidworks opened territories to all vendors and now bond payments are due on purchases they didn't need to make. Their solution is to squeeze everything they can out of their employees.

Utterly noncompetitive pay and benefits with little to no meaningful growth opportunities within the company. Controlling management who seem to believe we work for pleasure rather than pay (this is a "pizza party" environment). Engineers seem to land at this company because they couldn't cut it in the industry.

No bonus structure was in place when hired but assured us it would be fair, it was not. Position appeared to be stable up until they let go all permanent SDRs. They had obviously been planning this for months. They hired a company/agency (contractors) to do the same work as the permanent employees and when they determined the time was right, they let the permanent employees go and then lied about the reason.