Great team, horrible leadership - Anonymous employee Big Squid Employee Review

1.0
Nov 7, 2019
Anonymous employee
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Pros

The people that worked there were great it was fun to work in multiple industries and learn to implement ML for businesses. They had a great team who worked hard to gain every inch of success.

Cons

The great team mentioned before was constantly undermined by upper management(CEO/President). The team always gave constructive feedback and tried our best to set proper expectations for the client but that was never a concern for management and seen every time as being negative. The culture was good 2-3 years ago but has rapidly declined. I would never recommend working in this environment. You are constantly blamed for company/leadership failures. Dishonest and untrustworthy leadership. After leading the team astray and loosing accounts because they were saying the product could do things that it couldn't do. The CEO laid off half the staff and the people he laid off were part of the team actually delivering any sort of results. Absolutely no management changed. This is attributed to the fact that he cannot see any of his own faults and blames the team. He continues to do the same thing expecting different results.

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Pros

Ability to work as a solid team, with breat leadership

Cons

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5.0
Jun 24, 2017
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Pros

Big Squid operates like a big family. I hear it all the time, and I agree, people love coming to the office because we all love the people. That's not a characteristic you find in business very frequently. While we all have specific titles, we all take responsibility for the mission of the company--meaning we wear many hats at times, we stretch ourselves beyond what's comfortable, and we play very impactful roles in driving the growth of the company that we're all looking to achieve. A core value of our company is to drive career growth in the organization. Everyone here is learning all the time. I love that. Data Science and Predictive Analytics is all the rage in the analytics and BI space right now and Big Squid is on the bleeding edge of this insane evolution in business practices. Fast forward 5 years and those organizations who are winning in their sectors will be using predictive everywhere in their business. Big Squid is at the forefront of this evolution.

Cons

We work hard to play hard and at times we work harder than we play. But that's where we are as a company right now. If you are looking for a 9-5 coast your way through a hi-tech job this isn't the place for you. But if you want to ride a rocket ship into a data/analytics revolution, you won't find this level of effort a con.

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