Pros
-Strong sense of being apart of a mission-driven organization. -Very good place to learn complex SQL skills and to work with proprietary data tooling. -Easy to gain experience and exposure to A/B testing/experimentation. -Strong focus on culture within the data organization. (Key: within the data organization, this was not a company-level initiative.) -Generally interesting projects and ability to work on business-level problems that you might not typically encounter supporting a smaller team. -Some of the data leaders are extremely competent, inspiring, empathetic, organized, and supportive.
Cons
-Horrid corporate-level communications. -Each people manager has different ideas of what constitutes each level even though there is a career ladder (drives lack of clarity regarding promotion decisions and eligibility). -If equity in the workplace is something you champion, you can anticipate spending hours doing equity-oriented work (including sensitivity reads of newsroom articles) without compensation. -If you work with newsroom colleagues, expect a great deal of them to expect you to know their name on meeting them and their journalistic beat. -Very poor compensation in data positions relative to market rates. -As data organization grows, it seems different VP+ level leaders have different ideas of what the data organization should look and feel like.