Pros
Office is in a good location. Lunch is catered a few times a week. Paychecks clear. There's a couple of young but smart people on the data science team.
Cons
Quote from a new employee: “I think I made a mistake coming here." Brighterion now has ads all over the Bay Area, claiming to be "the" machine learning company. They claim Brighterion is the best AI company in the world, because it's powered by "Mindsuite", an AI toolkit that supposedly took "over 500 man-years to make". If you believe the claims you're going to be disappointed. The whole time I worked there I asked people what iPrevent and MindSuite do, and eventually realized that even the most senior employees didn’t understand how it works or what it’s supposed to do at all. The consensus among the employees is that Brighterion doesn’t have a secret sauce; it’s powered by a small team of data scientists that build fraud-detection models by hand using everyday machine learning techniques. Other complaints: -Most people at the office don’t talk to each other. -The CEO tells his employees to make up fake positive reviews on Glassdoor. -Terrible, terrible management. Expect no supervision and little communication. Expect power plays, like being ignored when you walk into your boss’s office or being yelled at publicly in meetings. -Computers are completely disconnected from the internet. -Expect to work with old technology: 32-bit Java 6, Spring, xslt, ant scripts. Everything is done with broken in-house technology, including things like xml parsing. -My desk was extremely grubby: it had a trap that filled with years of skin and hair. -Salaries are well below wages for the area.
