Pros
If you are in the oil and gas space and want to pivot to a tech role or get some research experience to hop to a fund or investment bank or a tech job then do the job and leave after a year max. Beyond that you are wasting your time for the most part, as there is not a lot of upside.
Cons
The C-suite and senior management seems like they are mostly just on autopilot waiting for their next payout. The leadership team of research isn’t willing to change with the times and turned the place into a grind house with no mentorship or proper progression paths. Not good leaders. Expect to start at a medium salary and then barely move up every year while getting overworked and over stressed. You’ll be told it’s “opportunity”. You can hop over to a decent amount of other jobs but there are no clear off ramps. The people that just show clients how to use the platform (Principal Constants) will get paid more than you for like a third of the effort. So just go do that instead and have a balanced life. Basically if you have any other tech or research role lined up just do that, otherwise use this to go somewhere else in short order.