Expect burnout for fast food pay - Jewelry Consultant Brilliant Earth Employee Review

1.0
Jan 22, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Decent introduction to sales - Fun product

Cons

- Sales goals are astronomical. You will not meet them. Our store has one of the top sales leaders in the nation and she was WRITTEN UP for not meeting her goal. - You will be written up and threatened to be fired for not meeting your sales goal - The pay is pathetic for the amount of workload given to you. You will make the company hundreds of thousands a quarter, and your bonus will not be granted for constantly falling short of your impossible sales goal. Should you make a bonus, it will be about 500 dollars. Taxed. So, expect 270. Congrats. - You cannot take days off, because this means not hitting your sales goal, which you weren't going to anyway. You will be written up for taking days off you requested many months prior. - If you take an anonymous survey that expressed your discontent, you will find out it was not anonymous and be encouraged to talk to your leaders directly rather than bringing it to the higher ups. This entire company is micromanaged by a useless HR mega-entity.

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Brilliant Earth Response
4mo
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5.0
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Pros

Brilliant Earth I feel truly cares about you as an individual. Great work life balance. Good benefits. The people you work with are very supportive.

Cons

I do not have any cons so far.

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Thank you for sharing your experience! We're so glad to hear you feel supported here.
1.0
Jul 8, 2026
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Pros

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Cons

Complete mismanagement from the top down. The company has aggressively expanded its showroom footprint over the past five years despite many locations struggling to generate meaningful profits. Instead of fixing operational issues, leadership continues opening new stores while the business and stock price have steadily declined. Product quality has noticeably deteriorated over the years. Precision, craftsmanship, and consistency are nowhere near what they once were. Manufacturing has largely been outsourced to third-party vendors, primarily in India, yet the company continues to market itself as a premium luxury brand. The company’s values have also become increasingly performative. It promotes a “Beyond Conflict Free” mission while sourcing diamonds from Angola under the justification that the country is “on the pathway.” At the same time, leadership seems more focused on replacing human expertise with AI wherever possible than investing in employees or improving the customer experience. Sales expectations are completely detached from reality. Sales Consultants are expected to hit quarterly targets as high as $330,000, and falling below 100% of quota can lead to disciplinary action regardless of market conditions, inventory shortages, or showroom traffic. Management roles are equally unsustainable. Managers are expected to be administrators, salespeople, recruiters, trainers, conflict mediators, HR partners, coaches, and upward managers—all simultaneously—without the staffing or support needed to succeed. The workload is excessive, accountability flows only downward, and leadership consistently prioritizes unrealistic growth metrics over employee well-being or operational excellence.

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Brilliant Earth Response
4d
We appreciate you sharing your honest perspective. Thank you for your feedback.
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