WWE reviews

Pretty much everything else. Don't be fooled by HR, the HR Reps there are NOT there for the employees. They will not stand up for you or take your issues seriously. They are clearly afraid of the management, especially if they support groups that are close to senior leadership. If they support anyone that is close to Vince they will do nothing for you but cover their own backside. It is a toxic culture that is driven by fear and intimidation. Even if you have a great boss who "protects" you from the chaos above them, in the end they have very little control. I've seen good people terminated against their immediate supervisor's guidance for very little and when asked for an explanation all HR could say was "performance issues" even when there was no indication there were issues. No discussion, no nothing. Just one day you're gone. If you're main goal is $$$ they will pay you well but know that it comes with a cost and you'll be looking for a new role within a year or two, your choice or theirs.

Though there was a definite appreciation and excitement about building out the data science team, there was also a rapid decline in data science understanding among the higher-ups. This would sometimes result in oddly constrained requests where the stakeholder wanted the team to use machine learning and pattern recognition techniques to identify natural clusters of the customer base (as opposed to the rules-based definitions already in use), but that there must be exactly N clusters, all more-or-less of size X, and that we must use variables a, b, and c. Constraints are fine, but it sometimes felt like "what's the point?" if we're not going to optimize the hyperparameters, or let the model dictate which variables are most important and should be used, etc. This wasn't a huge issue, but it did require good communication and negotiation skills in order to help them get more value out of the project.