Pros
- Generally, helpful co-workers.
- Strong / iconic brands with dominant market positions.
- Meta partnership / Smart Glasses is an exciting growth area.
- Privilege of making incorrect business decisions that still yield positive outcomes.
Cons
- Low technology stack leading to many manual processes that are ripe for some level of automation. All work is basically conducted in Excel.
- Company is extremely retrospective in its internal reporting versus focusing on predictive and prescriptive analyses that could be more value add.
- Rank has its privilege mindset - Upper management lacks accountability for its decision making, putting the onus on lower level analysts to justify their business decisions which, many times, are made based on pre-conceived notions prior to any analytical rigor.
- Similarly, many senior leaders can be abusive and outright disrespectful, which lead subordinates to take an "emperor has no clothes" philosophy when dealing with them.
- Culture of fire drills with respect to assignments leading to unrealistic deadlines for critical work which compromises quality and completeness.
- Company, many times, confuses tactics with strategy.
- Poor communication with respect to all aspects of the business. Teams generally work in silos and crucial information is shared on a need to know basis.