Brightwheel has gone downhill. - Account Executive Brightwheel Employee Review

2.0
1 Apr 2024
Recommend
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Pros

The good: Company culture is good. The people, and management are what make this job acceptable and do-able. Winning product. Brightwheel's product is amongst the best in the industry making the job easier. Great market fit.

Cons

The bad: Lack of transparency and honesty in sales. Upper management admittedly lies to us, and aren't transparent with almost anything at all. They tell new hires information that isn't true in the slightest. Many of the reviews are faked. We've also had our fair share of layoffs. So anything stated otherwise isn't true. Low compensation makes this job harder than it has to be. It's truly a difficult place to do your best work. Base salary is amongst the lowest in the entire industry. We work hard, and our CEO Dave has told us we don't work hard enough while our overall compensation plan has actually diminished (which we were never formally informed about). We'd never had 401k match, just promises that brightwheel is special. Diversity is non-existent as many reviews have stated. Career opportunities. If you're looking for a role to grow you won't find that here. Brightwheel is sort of working on it, but many have been waiting for years. Some people in the sales org have gotten "promotions" and have actually lost money on base salary, for more work. I think it's safe to say the growth opportunity isn't here. Lost good talent because of this. Turnover. Turnover in sales is expected, but we've had 4 changes in leadership over the span of a year. We can't keep them... If you work hard you'll do okay here, but burnout will come eventually. Overall my experience has been mostly poor. It once was a great place to work, but it's declining. My review would be more positive if transparency was valued. A lot of the issues we face are a direct result of lack of transparency.

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5.0
3 June 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Great opportunity for folks looking to learn and grow in scope, if you're willing to take ownership and drive results - Mission-driven company - truly inspiring to be able to work at a company that has such a large impact on early childhood education - Supportive leadership and ample room for growth - have been able to move from an IC to building out a team, as a result of delivering solid value and through support from my manager/leadership team - Working with some of the smartest folks I know - constantly learning, stretching and challenging each other in the best way possible - True growth - brightwheel is growing at a rapid clip, and with that comes many opportunities to learn, grow and have outsized impact

Cons

Very fast pace - because we're a rapidly growing startup, priorities can change quickly. You need to be able to adapt to change easily in order to succeed High degree of ambiguity - again, because we're a rapidly growing startup, we are solving for and building many things for our customers/internally for the first time. You need to be willing to roll up your sleeves and take a high degree of ownership

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2.0
22 June 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Remote though I miss the real camaraderie of being in-person Manager was supportive / tried to do everything to give me a reason to stay Kind of interesting product - people you know use it

Cons

This is genuinely the worst company I have ever worked for. I left so fast because I was not going to put up with the weirdo behavior I saw from my direct team. I experienced gatekeeping and straight up bullying (?!) from my direct team which definitely came from a place of insecurity but it felt like being back in high school. Coming from working environments where we propped our teammates up, wanted one another to look good, etc. it was just the strangest thing ever. My other colleague experienced the same and dipped out as soon as they could as well. Also incredibly boring to be honest. No personality or culture.

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