BrightView reviews

Management, especially upper management will directly lie to your face about the status of what you will be joining. I was told I would be helping establish a growing "sister" branch, I was told the properties were not that bad and just needed some things ironed out. Upon meeting each account, I learned that there no account manager for almost 4 months prior to my joining and they were livid. I spent 6 months working from 7 to 7 alongside having to drive an hour to and from home to be told that I was "Not on site enough" and "Didn't care". This company will lie to your face, not train you, leave you alone with no support, and will drop and blame you for poor performance when your largest contract decides to cancel renewal less than 2 months after you started working there. Play close attention to the wording they use, the deflection of blame and responsibility, and the lack of making good decisions. Please keep track of them constantly telling you to white lie to every customer about every situation while also telling you the best way to gain trust is to be transparent. DO NOT spend more time here than you need to and DO NOT work more than what seems reasonable for being in a salary position (roughly 45 hours max). They will throw you under the bus the second it becomes available as management, especially upper management only looks to make themselves look better while deflecting all blame possible.

They sell you a fantasy when they hire you. All the benefits, PTO on top of time off during the holidays, a wonderful company with plenty of upward mobility, 4 months of busy, long hours but the rest of the year is slow and easy so being salaried it evens out in your favor and bonuses. None of that is true. Being the largest publicly traded landscaping company, you are a cog in the machine. Not a person, but a resource they will suck everything out of you possible. If you were to measure the stress response on a biological level, for some brightview employees, you would think they are neurosurgeons not in landscaping. You are expected to work during PTO, even though the branch is shut down a good bit during the holidays you now have to consider it you’re accrued PTO. Those 60-70 hour weeks don’t really stop even in the off season, and you will be expected as a salaried manager fill in on labor shortages and do manual work sometimes until 6:30 pm- 7:00 pm when your work day starts at 6 am. No one gets bonuses, and you face constant job insecurity that you could be let go over an account ceasing service over something that is most likely completely outside of your control because you don’t matter at this company at all. At the end of the day it’s all about getting maximum profits for shareholders, the people who are completely disconnected and out of touch with what the day to day is like for the average employee control and cause all this pressure that seeps into the company culture making a very toxic work environment. Middle management gets cliquey, resents anyone else who isn’t jumping at the opportunity to work around the clock neglecting their life outside of work like they are failing to realize no one should be expected to donate their time as a charity for a giant company that revenues $2 Billion a year. On top of that not even offering good benefits for salaried employees. Even the cheapest worst coverage health insurance they offer was way more than most can afford.