Pros
- Data Scientists get paid very well here. - Most of our projects are just for fun and have no direct contributions to the business. The stuff that we do (NLP, Recommendation Engine, Lead Scoring) already exist as products/services that can be offered by third party vendors. I don't even know why we need to re-invent the wheel. - It's very easy to just coast and get paid
Cons
- Our head of Data Science is clueless and not very articulate. I'm not even sure why he's still having a job for so long. Favoritism is very obvious in his org. Certain members in the team are getting paid almost 2x of others. - The executives here don't know what they are doing. Maybe that's why Data Science team has such an easy time here. More reasons for employees to just fake their works and coast. - While it is easy to just get paid and do nothing, the company is running off the cliff so it's about time for me to look elsewhere. Stock price is plummeting so it effectively reduces my total compensation. - CEO seems like he wants to cash out and retire. I don't feel that he cares about the company.
