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Brightspot Incentives & Events

Is this your company?

Get in and get out. - Anonymous employee Brightspot Incentives & Events Employee Review

3.0
30 June 2015
Anonymous employee
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Pros

-Account names are big, a lot of good experience working with clients. -Can touch on many different aspects of marketing, event planning, incentives, collateral design etc. -Good job out of college, lots of opportunities to travel. -Office overlooks a golf course. -Team building activities. -Good benefits for a small company. -There are jars of snacks and free coffee. -Your next job will feel unbelievable.

Cons

-The pay is offensive. The average pay for a Program Specialist in Dallas TX is $52k. You can go ahead and take $15-20k off that, and expect to make that for at least the first 3 years you're there. -You are blessed with the opportunity to work overtime so you can make up a few thousand dollars by working instead of spending time with your family. -Big name accounts because they underbid the other companies and give stuff away for free to get the account. Then they under-staff programs and events to increase the bottom line, and then expect their specialists to deliver the high-level work of 2-3 people for an entry level salary. -They don't trust specialists with a laptop computer. So if you travel, you have to check out a giant laptop with none of your files on it like it's 1998. -A few of the managers are hilariously unstable and inexperienced. Luck of the draw if you land one of them as your manager or not.

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Brightspot Incentives & Events Response
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As a general rule, our Program Specialists have 0-5 years experience. Marketing Coordinator or Meeting Coordinator are better job titles for making salary comparisons. Program Specialist is a job title that varies widely across HR, so comparisons are confusing. For example, a Specialist could include an Electrical Engineer with 20 years experience. We use (Meeting) Program Specialist or (Incentive) Program Specialist to reflect the industry expertise of those roles and the knowledge gained through our training and development opportunities. And, we pay overtime to Specialists which often adds another 5%-20% in pay.

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Cons

Where do I start? For starters, this company cannot retain employees to save their lives. They’ve had about 15 out of 30 people on the events side quit this year, all very tenured employees. The only people left at the company are very new. The tenured employees were forced to train, teach, and onboard all of these new people while also working 12+ hours a day with no overtime pay… how does that make sense? If you’re working less than 9 hours a day (again, with no overtime pay), you get frowned upon. Management does not want to do the work themselves, so they push it onto the people who actually know what they’re doing. Then, once those people quit, management acts shocked. They go from shocked to angry very quickly. The two weeks after I put in my notice, everyone was so mean to me. They wouldn’t look me in the eyes, talk to me, or acknowledge me at all. Leadership here is seriously a joke, very immature and obsessed with drama. Speaking of drama, this is the most drama-filled place I have ever worked in my life. There are definitely a few drama-starting specialists, but leadership is just as bad. I have never referred a friend to work here and never will because it is genuinely one of the worst places you could work. Be prepared to work long hours for the lowest pay possible. There’s a reason so many people have quit. Leadership does not care, even after countless employees have told them exactly what they’re doing wrong. At this point, they will hire anyone with a pulse because they are desperate. Seriously, if you take away anything from this review, do not work here. It’s filled with long hours, low pay, and catty people. Thank me later.

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