Overworked and underpaid, most DS are on the way out. - Data Scientist Bread Financial Employee Review

1.0
Mar 23, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Decent benefits (only for those who have kids or baby boomers though, zero support for new grads or student loans). FTO, that you will never get to use because you’re so overworked. Decent SLT support but directors are overworked due to inefficient structure of depts. Decent corporate culture outside of analytics/DS teams.

Cons

It’s bizarre, most of the other technical people I talk to mention how underpaid they are and then ask where I’m interviewing like most of their peers are already interviewing too. Like across multiple depts I’ve ran into this. Lots of confusing restructuring. Our entire department got moved recently but it took them a month to put a meeting together to tell us about it, only to not tell us at the meeting. I still have no idea who I’m supposed to be working with external to my team. Layoffs potentially in horizon and no indication of growth or innovation to make up the difference. It used to be a decent place to work in Columbus but I just can’t rationalize working here anymore. It’s sad because I used to have a lot of loyalty to this company.

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Bread Financial Response
2y
Thank you for sharing your list of Pros, Cons and Advice. We appreciate your recognition of our benefits, FTO, SLT support, and corporate culture. Our goal is to remain competitive in pay and benefits across various markets in which we do business and we review our pay practices regularly in order to ensure we achieve that goal. We take your concerns seriously and will pass along to the appropriate teams. Thanks for all of your contributions!

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