Complete 180 w/ Management Change + New Focus on Product Experience - Anonymous employee Big Squid Employee Review

5.0
Jun 25, 2020
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The validation you get to experience from talking to prospective customers every day is refreshing and invigorating. To know that not only are you in a space that's bursting at the seams with activity, but that you are targeting a regularly neglected yet quickly growing segment is motivation to bust your butt everyday. There's been a complete reorganization at the leadership level and it shows in immeasurably large ways. Talking to the new CEO is like talking to a friend. Everyone banters and challenges preconceived notions and assumptions in a way that instills faith in everyone throughout the entire organization. It truly feels like a startup that's innovating and not like a big corporation, and exciting is the simplest way to describe it.

Cons

In the same vein as above (it's a startup and not a corporation), you have to be willing to break the mold of "9 to 5" sometimes. You don't get to just check boxes and say you did the minimum work required, sometimes you have to put in a late night if it means getting something done on time. The good side of that is it is very much "work hard play hard". If you're getting close to burning out or we've just been through a sprint, it's not uncommon to tack a few days onto your weekend for a staycation.

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5.0
Jun 11, 2024
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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
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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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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