Pros
REMOTE! My department was easy, basically had no work to do. Nice coworkers. Manager was not a micromanager. Remote. Mildly interesting data and opportunities to interface with clients. Decent pay for the work given; opportunities for continuing education. Walgreens discounts! Severance offered even when employed for a short while. PTO and PST is at least three weeks for starting employees. Not a terrible company to work for at all.
Cons
Not a lot of work which sounds great, but when you are applying for other jobs, it can make it difficult to have experiences to share in the next job interview/resumes. Old technology - was hired thinking that I’d being doing Python or R analytics (as stated in the interview) but only did *basic* SQL and Excel. My team didn’t even know how to use PowerQuery or PivotTables. Data code quality assurance is very bad. We had to copy and paste our code into the excel file we were working on! Not fully remote in the sense of you must be only US-based. No mechanisms are in place if you have family abroad and need to assist them for a few weeks but also want to keep working. You’re basically told you have to use FMLA or something if no PTO is available. No work means that your department is likely to be at risk for lay-offs when department budgets are audited. This happened to me, and it seems to have scared some other team members. Just something to also keep in mind! I was in a hiring boom and then BAM. Huge budget and employee cuts not even a year later. No maternity leave, even though when I was hired they were so proud of their culture of women (“we have so many women in management in C-Suite!!”), and not enough PTO to justify it. Old computer set up. Lay-off was like the ones many experienced in the last few waves of tech layoffs - a surprise meeting on a calendar and then after the meeting, your laptop just shuts off, with no goodbyes or well wishes.
