Enjoying the excitement, and challenge, of re-defining data science for performance improvement in complex organizations
Pros
The firm brings clients a completely new way of thinking about operational problems. The focus is primarily on leveraging data science to de-average the digital information generated by companies and their operations, and then digitally diagnosing opportunities for performance improvement. For me, being able to develop and deploy these techniques into a client setting is intellectually exciting. I am constantly learning new ways to think about and work with data, including improving my programing and analytical skills. In short, I learn something new every day and am having a fun time in the process. The culture of the firm has the buzz and healthy disheveledness of a tech startup, but a client book of business with fortune 500 firms like a blue-chip consulting house.
Cons
The work usually isn’t 9-5. In recent months the firm has really taken off, meaning that everyone is really pushing forward flat out to fill the incoming engagements. It can be stressful at times, but the work is very intellectually interesting.
