PULSE Reviews

3.2

47% would recommend to a friend

(14 total reviews)

Nick Hall

55% approve of CEO

56% positive business outlook

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2.0
1 July 2020

Pretty heartbreaking

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Mostly nice people and beautiful office space downtown.

Cons

- Compensation is NOT worth the amount of work expected from each employee. While it's understandable that it's a non-profit and pay is not much, the entire organization throws money around frivolously and asks employees to GIVE to Pulse from their measly paychecks. In a huge, brand new building, yet cannot afford to pay their employees well. Spends an insane amount on office chairs and expensive rugs for an office space where they laid off employees because they couldn't pay them anymore. - Nick Hall is an egotistical leader. Pulse is quite literally the "Nick Hall Show", not a ministry centered around Jesus and sharing the Gospel. Nick is too worried about growing his fame and spending Pulse's donor money on expensive coffee and lunches for himself daily. Nick cares more about his Instagram following than the way he treats and cares for his employees. - No room for growth. There is no way to really grow or "work your way up" at Pulse. You're basically hired for the role you will remain in. That being said, no room for promotion or a real raise. - I thought working at Pulse would be fun, but honestly it is just a stressful situation because no one cares to follow processes or cares about the mental health of the employees. During Covid-19, they worked each person to the bone before laying them off with horrible severance packages.

3.0
3 July 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Honestly, all my coworkers were seriously great to work with. Culture there was fun and inviting. Most of my experience there was great. Everyone got along and it felt like a family. People actually cared about you and your personal life and staff constantly would pray for each other which was great.

Cons

Really my main issue was with the CEO. Nick Hall is prideful and needs to check himself and his need for validation on social media and having a high following - this goes against the mission of Pulse, which is to lead people to Jesus. It shouldn’t be the Nick Hall show. Specifically investing donor money to gain more followers is not the way to go about it. I worked there for over a year and Nick barely even said a word to me. With such a small staff, I expected he would know everyone by name, but I’m pretty sure he didn’t even know my name half the time. Also, he spent way too much of Pulse’s donor money on expensive cold brew every morning... which seemed like an unfair use of Pulse donor money. Pay is not enough for amount of experience and work. I get it’s a non profit, but people working grocery or fast food jobs were making as much or more than I was... Money management We had a process to go through for projects, but when Nick Hall wanted something, it was completely thrown out the window. And usually it was needed last minute either the same day or the next day. Our team was emailed at one point on a Sunday at 9:30PM and were told to get a new project done by the next morning by 8am. Keeping in mind we didn’t get overtime pay for working last 40 hours... work life balance was really nonexistent at times with upper management. Who checks their email at 9:30 on a Sunday night??

2.0
1 July 2020

Chaotic & disappointing

Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Honestly a lot of great people work here.

Cons

- Fake salary. - Absolutely no concept of work-life balance at the leadership level. The amount of times I was contacted outside of working hours or expected to work exceptionally long days without any compensation was incredible (in a bad way). - Nick Hall does not care about the people who work for him. Completely transactional leadership. - Nobody in leadership respects the approval process, which makes things extremely disorganized. - If there was ever a ministry not centered on Jesus, this is it. Nick Hall is more concerned about the number of Instagram followers he has than the amount of followers Jesus has.

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