Does Highnote pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Highnote employees rate their compensation and benefits as 4.1 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Highnote. This rating has been stable over the past 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at Highnote?

78% of Highnote employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Highnote 3.8 out of 5 for work life balance, 4.0 for culture and values and 3.9 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Highnote?

Senior Software Engineer (3) , Software Engineer (3)

What are the pros of working at Highnote according to real employee reviews?

"organized steps that kept everything on track and left a positive impression of the company’s culture and values before making a decision on an offer." ((in 3 reviews)); "Founding (and still growing) team is made up of rockstars in the payments industry that will be undoubtedly successful in building and launching the product and business" ((in 2 reviews))

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4.1

78% would recommend to a friend

(21 total reviews)

93% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

4.4

Diversity and inclusion

4.1

Compensation and benefits

4.0

Culture and values

4.0

Senior management

3.9

Career opportunities

3.8

Work/Life balance

Highnote has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 21 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Highnote employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

Reviews by job title

21 reviews

1.0

24 Mar 2025

You don't want to work here

Senior software engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business outlook

Pros

Beautiful office space, 15 minute walk from BART.

Cons

Cult-like work environment where the norm is to work overtime, all the time. Most code is not unit tested. Code is in a monorepo, and not in a good way -- if anyone breaks the build, the entire release is stopped for hours, it's really annoying. I see a lot of code is just copied-and-pasted around; code quality is really low. Not fun to work here, bad culture.

3.0

27 Aug 2024

Growing pains

Marketing

Recommend

CEO approval

Business outlook

Pros

Nice work life balance with intentional diversity inclusion

Cons

The company has an interesting idea but not able to scale quickly

5.0

1 Aug 2024

Great interview and hiring process

Product and design

Recommend

CEO approval

Business outlook

Pros

Highnote's hiring process and was impressive because of their respectfulness and efficiency. From start to finish, communication was clear and courteous, making me feel valued throughout. Timely feedback and well-organized steps that kept everything on track and left a positive impression of the company’s culture and values before making a decision on an offer. Highnote sets a high standard for a positive and professional hiring experience. I have a great outlook for my role, the product, and the company within my first 60 days. Highnote also has one of the best/most sensible hybrid working policies I have ever come across being at major tech players and startups within the Bay Area.

Cons

Nothing to note at this time.

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