Wonderful product, horrible leadership - Anonymous employee BrightBytes Employee Review

2.0
11 Aug 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

You get to work with a lot of kind, talented people who really care about improving the way the world learns. Every team has friendly people and it's easy to get to know each other in the office. We have a lot of satisfied customers from all over the country.

Cons

- A lot of leadership is inexperienced - a handful of amazing people left this year due to this - There's a lot of talking, but not doing (i.e. promotions, raises, the unraveling of Concur) - Located in a sketchy neighborhood in SOMA, building is in no way up to code - Some of the employees that have been here longer than others don't get the recognition they deserve (i.e. insultingly low raises, little career growth) - It's hard to make complete a customer call without being interrupted by others in the office - Some people consistently have to work long hours because no one else helps them with their workload - HR team doesn't know what we need

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Cons

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4.0
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Pros

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