Great culture, endless opportunities - Anonymous employee Decisive Data Employee Review

5.0
Jul 11, 2017
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Decisive Data has a very laid back culture that encourages asking questions and learning. The obvious things like work from home policy, expected hours, dress code, work/life balance, etc. are laid back, but I also say laid back because I find that people are very understanding if you don't know something or make a mistake. We have all been there. DD also pushes employees to constantly be learning, which is great for finding new challenges and also building up your resume.

Cons

Like any consulting company, there are a lot of moving parts - the client, the account manager, the SOW, the project manager, the resourcing team, the developers... We are only as strong as our weakest link. For example, if the project manager doesn't write up the hour estimates, then the resourcing manager will put you on more projects, then you're stretched too thin on those projects but committed to them because there is nobody else available, and you don't even like these projects because you wanted to practice a totally different skill in the first place. DD does their best to double check the processes to make sure the entire system is operating smoothly, but the reality is sometimes people can be on less-than-ideal projects for a variety of reasons. Additionally, though there are a TON of intangible benefits, everybody's looking at one tangible benefit - money. DD pays well considering its size, but if you are willing to sell your soul to a big corporation, you could find higher pay.

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5.0
Oct 5, 2020
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Pros

Culture, freedom to learn, friendliness.

Cons

High turnover led to difficult projects.

1.0
Dec 17, 2018
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Pros

There are a number of highly talented technically capable individuals and thought leaders. If you are fresh out of college and want data and analytics experience, you could do a lot worse than here. Friendly, passionate people and pretty good company culture for the most part. There's definitely unrealized potential, which is why it's so disappointing.

Cons

If this were a university or academic institution, I'd probably give it 5 stars for the way people approach their work with the kind of passion one sees in fields of research, but it's a place of employment where clients are paying very well for the work. Despite charging clients very high rates, they pay employees far below market rate across the board, and often learn how to do things on the fly, meaning they're charging their customers for their employees' training. Leadership is all over the place and somewhat asleep at the wheel in terms of overall business strategy. Although employees are technically capable, there's a severe lack of outside career experience, meaning their perspective is very skewed, and more often than not they can't handle difficult client experiences. They often don't have the bandwidth or resources to scale fast enough to truly grow the business.

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