Dataminr reviews

Fake Executives and managers are two-faced. The company has a diplomatic culture where everyone repeats the same AI-centric language, ends up sounding like they’re all robots. No one in management can give you answers without beating around the bush and using “Dataminr official” language. Executives are entirely out of touch what makes the company great (the DE org). With recent changes, responsibilities have been handed off to contractors, worsening the product quality. Domain experts are in their way out. The job can be mentally taxing, but you kind of know that when signing up. Micromanaging is real here, and employees are afraid to make a simple mistake without being remanded for it. But when managers make the same mistake, it goes unnoticed. Management goes by the buddy system. If someone is personal friends with a manager, they’ll get special treatment over others. No room for advancement unless you’re buddies with the people making those choices. Rumors are constantly swirling, making everyone on edge about restructuring, cuts, and layoffs. You can guarantee you’re being talked about behind your back. Good luck getting a job after you’re laid off due to the uniqueness of the company and product.

The epitome of the "fake it, til you make it" motto of many tech companies. As the human element, there is a sense that the executive leadership wishes that the DE org didn't exist. The organization went lean in fall 2020 without offering any significant changes in salaries, benefits, or management style to those who were kept on. Layoffs went hand-in-hand with a lockdown on internal communications after the company received bad press during BLM protests, resulting in an atmosphere of fear and anxiety. More than a year later, trust in leadership remains low, rates of burnout are high and expectations are unrealistic in demanding humans to perform as if they were computers. If you're going to join the DE org, ensure that you already have your next step planned- outside of Dataminr. Once you hit a wall in this role, it's terribly difficult to recover.