Place to build technical skills; management leaves much to be desired - Senior Analyst Beghou Employee Review

2.0
14 Sept 2014
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Pros

-Office culture generally promotes a healthy work-life balance (minimal travel involved) -Place to learn a lot of technical skills and apply them on a regular basis -Using PTO is fairly simple as long as you give proper notice

Cons

-Extreme variability between project workloads (some overworked, others underworked) which is amplified by the fact that you tend to stay on projects for years -Work is not fulfilling as you spend most of your time cleaning data, running processes and creating client materials while providing little or no insight -Managers while competent in their own expertise can vary dramatically in style, which is a problem when you might end up with just 1 supervisor for 3-4 years -Lack of perks and focus on a cohesive office culture makes it a very 9-5 type atmosphere where employees are not encouraged to interact socially and can be very isolated -No transparency regarding billing rates, company profitability etc. is disturbing and indicates lack of trust between upper management and employees -Very lean project teams means that there is often only 1 person who knows an entire piece of project which leads to difficult transition periods

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Cons

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Pros

The company has a very structured, hierarchical environment, which may appeal to people who prefer a traditional corporate setting. Work moves quickly and you’re expected to figure things out and take ownership of your responsibilities early on. You’re also exposed to fairly technical work right away. At the time I worked there, the role was mostly work-from-home, which was a nice perk.

Cons

This role may appeal to someone who prefers long stretches of solitary technical work. The role is often framed as consulting, but in practice, most engagements are long-term, multi-year relationships with the same clients focused on maintaining and managing data infrastructure. Internally, the work is proudly described as “data stewardship.” Day-to-day responsibilities are heavily technical and coding-focused. The vast majority of the work involves mundane data cleaning, data pipeline development, and maintaining datasets. Opportunities for business consulting work are essentially nonexistent. Expectations often resemble those of data science or software engineering roles, while compensation is a fraction of what those roles typically command. Training and onboarding were minimal, yet expectations for output were extremely high from the beginning.

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