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Excellent place to grow as a software developer - Software Development Team Lead Growth Intelligence Employee Review

5.0
1 Aug 2018
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Pros

Growth Intelligence allowed me to grow massively as a developer from junior to team lead. Working in a small company really gives you exposure to a wide variety of experience - from working across the full development stack (and then some... super-stack developer?) to designing elements of the UI to travelling to meet users. Additionally, being a small company everyone is very close, which is great because everyone is very friendly. Except surreal lunch conversations with the leadership team, full company dinners and activities, lots of mixing with people across departments. As a developer working with Prash (CTO) was great, he's an experienced developer and now after many year also an experienced CTO! The way he's set the team up shows he cares about both business goals and personal development. Being a machine learning company, even if you're not one of the data scientists you'll see the full lifecycle of a machine learning model and work on the data and model management aspects, which in my opinion is just as interesting and a highly sort-after skill. To cap it all off - the company has really found a good product-market fit, which is demonstrated in the growth numbers for the last year. So a very exciting place to work which will bring many new opportunities to grow into new roles.

Cons

If your goal is to focus on one very specific area - a small team is not for you. Expect to be working on a variety of areas, making gradual improvements. If your goal is to work in 5 different programming languages - this is not for you. Growth Intelligence primarily work in Python (for the data-science stack). Using other languages is possible (the UI is a react application for example) but the pragmatic choice is often to stick with Python. If your goal is to work on a large scale distributed system with dozens of microservices, this is not for you. Its not that type of company (not B2C for a start). If your goal is to get paid a gazillion pounds, this is not for you. Its a startup, and not one that is guzzling more venture capital money than is sustainable.

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5.0
27 Jun 2019
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Pros

Growth Intelligence is a brilliant place to develop as a data scientist. One of the key reasons for this is that the company has initiatives designed to encourage learning at all levels of the organisation, including a personal learning budget; protected learning time; hackdays; internal tech talks; a journal club; and an ever-growing library of textbooks. As a data scientist at Growth Intelligence, you’re part of a team that is building a machine learning product which solves complex business challenges and delivers huge value to large enterprise businesses. This provides an opportunity to get close to our clients, understand their challenges and see projects through from end-to-end, which I find incredibly rewarding. The data science team is fairly small which provides the opportunity to work on a variety of different problems. Responsibility is given very early on and you’re able to work independently and really feel like you’re having an impact on the team and company. The team at Growth Intelligence are supportive and collaborative. The company promotes a great culture through providing company updates every other week, quarterly team dinners, bbq's in Highbury Fields and we tend to have lunch together most days too.

Cons

Growth Intelligence is a small but ambitious company, this means the focus is on work that will have the greatest impact on the business and our clients. This means there aren’t really the resources to be able to go off on a tangent and get lost in the newest technologies within your day to day work. Growth Intelligence doesn’t currently have a need for specialist data science roles, we all work on everything. So it wouldn’t be a great fit for someone who wants a very specific focus.

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