Brightline reviews

More and more there is a contradiction between what the company and the CEO and leaders say and and what is actually done. I will give two examples. 1. We are told a lot that mental health is important and the company cares about us and we should take care of our mental health and the company is taking steps so people who are feeling burned out feel less burned out. At the same time the CEO has said at a general meeting that everyone should be working at least 45 hours a week minimum and that everyone who works at a startup should know that you can't just work a regular 40 hour work week. So which is it? Should we take care of our mental health to make sure we don't burn out or should we always be working overtime? 2. We are told diversity and inclusion is very important for the company and are told at meetings a lot about the work the DEI committee is doing. The CEO is a white woman and she talks a lot about how we've hired a lot of women. But very few people of color are getting hired especially in leadership positions. Someone asked at a general meeting why we only have one person of color in executive leadership. The answer was that they did consider a lot of non-white people for the last 3 executive positions that were recently filled but that in every single case the white person was obvi the best candidate. Really? I joined the company because I care about mental health a lot and I was excited to be part of something that made a difference in the world. I am still here and I haven't given up because I have hope that the company might change. But if I'm being real about it the culture at this company has gotten worse since I got here. I and a lot of other people are feeling lied to, disillusioned and burned out right now. But we have to act like we are excited and everything is perfect every day.

Not a con, just a fact. At scale, it can be hard for companies to retain the sense of culture you feel at an early stage start-up. That said, I have no doubt this leadership will continue to put the team and the mission first.