Pros
- Great colleagues who support each other - Free meal every day - Health insurance - Company outings at least once a quarter - Professional development budget
Cons
- The job is incredibly stressful: You are required to always be on with no downtime, and you see and read horrifying things - You are required to do a lot of extra work for no pay: You work eight hours, plus you are expected to attend meetings, read briefing emails and work on projects and assignments outside those hours. You definitely don't receive anything like a lunch hour, with all food consumed at desks - The hours are very unsociable: DEs work late hours, weekends and federal holidays and it's difficult to see family and friends - At lot of the people in the company feel that they have been mis-sold the job they were taking on - There's not much room for growth: Dataminr are taking on new people but almost all the positions available are for new Domain Experts - Pay: There are huge disparities between DEs and yearly pay raises are limited