Cutthroat corporate and cold - Anonymous employee BrightView Employee Review

1.0
Dec 1, 2025
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Pay was decent & people were nice

Cons

New CEO destroys careers and ONLY cares about pleasing shareholders and increasing his own pay package. Employees that worked there for years, decades even, were kicked out and replaced by cheaper labor and contractors in a desperate attempt to boost stock value. It’s a landscaping company. The stock will never come close to its overvalued IPO but that doesn’t stop the golden parachuted management from taking a hatchet to the lives of dedicated employees. The career path is very undefined and promotion from within is rare. Ever since the companies that merged to become BrightView did so, the toxicity of the work environment has increased consistently.

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2.0
Jun 11, 2026
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Pros

Good employees. Standard benefits package. No cap on commissions. Occasional catered meals.

Cons

Unfortunately, as with any large publicly traded company the goal is to keep investors pleased and there is high pressure to perform and grow business in an economic climate where stability is more realistic than growth. The company is structured by different branches, that function as their own cost center while reporting numbers to corporate. This structure makes sense on paper, but unfortunately leads to fractured relationships between branches and departments, leading to a loss of potential revenue. There is favoritism with the top earners being handed their accounts and not having to do much actual hunting or prospecting. Health insurance is very expensive with high deductibles. Usage of company car is deducted from paycheck. A large majority of what is performed could be considered "field work" that most companies would hire hourly employees to do and would qualify as overtime.

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