FreedomPay Reviews

Good lord. I’ve never had a job in my field that was this awful. The team lead they hired for iOS is a heartless, terrible human being. Despite my having a few years of experience delivering quality solutions and good experiences with former supervisors, my FreedomPay team lead did everything in his power to suck the confidence out of me and make me think I couldn’t do the job HE hired me to do. Joke’s on him, I’m on to bigger and better things and every employer I’ve had since loves me. Anyhow, nothing I did as part of my job was ever good enough. I’d submit pull requests that, most of the time, satisfied the acceptance criteria I was given. Then during code review, my dear team lead would change the parameters/scope of the original task and make me tear it all apart and do the thing a new way. This would be fine if not for the fact that he’d gripe at me about how I wasn’t finishing things on time. See the problem here? I’ll never forgive him for making me turn down another job opportunity to take the job at FreedomPay so I could spend almost a year watching my health and weight deteriorate as I spent every waking hour working and trying to satisfy him to no avail. DO NOT entertain these people if they come trying to hire you for *anything* iOS/Mac-related, unless you like not doing anything but working for a ghoul who will never be satisfied and will whine about you to his boss the first chance he gets. A year and a half later I still scowl every time I see this company’s name anywhere. It seriously bothers me that somebody could do this to me with no consequences to them. I hope to never work for a company like FreedomPay ever again so long as I live.

I'm contacted about a position with FreedomPay. They (and everyone else) go on and on about the office. I can't overstate how weird it is for a company to market it's office as hard as FreedomPay does. "The office is so nice." "We have a great new office" -- It's an office. It has cubicles. You over look the highway. There is nothing about this place that 50 other companies in a one mile radius don't have in spades. The kicker is, they didn't get enough space. So, you see a cramped space where people are doubling up in offices. They're moving programmers to another office that is in the midst of being built/renovated. It's missing things like outlets, toilets, heat, but nothing important. The phat office is a bate and switch for the CIA-black-site they move you to, which is more like an unfinished construction space. No free cafe if you're in the "other office". The technology product team at FreedomPay is lead by a bunch of middle aged white guys. Literally, all the executives in technology are middle aged white men. If you're gay, brown, or a woman, FreedomPay tech will be a tough place for you. How unpleasant? Unpleasant enough that every female technology leader (through the executive ranks) has left in the last three months, and they were all top performers. That lack of diversity directly translates to their software. The guys running the development area hit their prime in the early 2000's when big relational databases running on big servers was cool. It's not now. We've picked up a thing or two in the last ten years, and FreedomPay does not employ any of them..... at all. Technology innovation at FreedomPay measured by third party integrations and not unique and clever solutions to daunting problems. As stated in their job descriptions, FreedomPay is a Microsoft shop: Windows, Visual Studio, C#, SQL Server, and Reporting Services. The cool dev stuff sold in interviews is NO WHERE (NO. WHERE.) as prevalent as sold in interviews. I cannot understate this. The worst part of this is the poor management means constant firefighting, weekend work, and everyone fried all the time. The few good people in tech get burned out and split.