Good wlb, poor product direction, pretty good pay. Feels like a sinking ship.
Pros
Fantastic wlb, 6 month parental leave, 4-6 weeks pto, sabbatical after 5 yrs. Not very demanding work hours/deadlines. Good benefits (100% paid for premiums).
Cons
Company is facing pretty heavy attrition due to individuals from pre-acqusistion now leaving. Every team is short staffed (by hald) it seems. The ML team got hit the hardest. Struggling to backfill important roles like Head of ML. No career growth opportunities because management likes to keep head count small. Product direction has done drastic changes multiple times in last 4 years: pre-acqs were building really ambitious projects, acquisition forced products to help S&P, and now company is looking to turn products externally. Having HR and IT attached to the monolithic abomination that is S&P can be a pain in the butt. The liaisons for those roles at Kensho are fantastic, but they don’t really have power.