Pros
- Smart and hardworking colleagues - Fast paced environment - Great technical guidance and statistical wisdom from senior staff - Great applied statistics and ML training - Strong culture of work documentation and iteration
Cons
- Poor and insulting pay relative to broader industry - High turnover on some teams - Brutal, thankless, and uncompensated on call schedule (nights, holidays, weekends) unequally distributed across employees and teams - Extreme micromanagement on some teams - Aggressive and hostile environment on some teams - Long noncompete and no garden leave - Sacrifice new employees to work on teams with a very very long history of abuse, poor performance, high turnover, extreme and absurd levels of micromanagement and extreme burnout. No, these employees are not compensated more, they are compensated less and there is no career growth. Beware. If you join there’s a 25% chance it will happen to you. I’ve seen countless smart people have their early careers wrecked and their lives turn into complete hell.