Stress, stress, and more stress - Financial Assistant Brightside Employee Review

2.0
Mar 19, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Learning opportunity for personal finances. Supportive coworkers. Team leaders who mostly care. Access to savings account and more.

Cons

Extremely stressful job due to a variety of reasons. Brightside does not have reliable or consistent tools to provide the kind of care that they advertise. With a lack of tools, the financial assistant takes on much stress and ownership of the outcome with each client. Most clients reach out for loans and are upset when they do not qualify. Your role also has to troubleshoot technical issues daily, which they failed to tell you about when you started working here. Unprofessional technical support system and lack of needed improvements leads you to twiddle your thumbs and bull— the client until the team figures it out. Go team! You are also pressured to make clients continue working with their financial assistant and this is largely out of your control because most people do not want to actively work on their issues.

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5.0
Nov 24, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Culture of creativity, education and collaboration. Strong partnerships cross-functionally and customer obsessed. Clients come first, always. People always willing to lean in and help.

Cons

Young company who needs to scale quickly and learn while we fly. Requires a lot of energy, but very inspiring environment.

2.0
Apr 20, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

-Remote -Great manager and immediate team -Great learning experience when first starting out -Supportive HR + management when needed -Generous PTO -Can play a role in helping someone improve their life, and a good portion of clients truly appreciate the help we try to give

Cons

-High stress environment -Lack of true company direction (at will of its customers) -Charade of financial wellness + questionable methods of reporting our value to our customers -Extremely repetitive in nature and lack of boundaries for role -Constant switching between expectations and standards -Toxic "start-up" + fake "growth" culture -High volume -Career growth? Never heard of it

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