Great People, Great Benefits, Typical Corporate Flaws - Lead Data Scientist Glassdoor Employee Review

4.0
Jan 6, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

First off, really, really great benefits, comp isn't super competitive but it's very good and I understand my compensation very well. I also really like the transparency around compensation the company just undertook. I love my coworkers, most people are here to do good work and collaborate. Department leadership genuinely cares when there is tension or conflict and works to improve our communication, systems or team setup to mitigate friction. I like my day to day work, it's a good mix of foundational work like creating datasets or dashboard, and more analytic/ML work like building models or analyzing patterns. My manager sets me up for success and trusts me to do my job. Glassdoor takes people management seriously (at least it seems so from my team) and asks managers to really commit to being people managers. My boss cares about my career and has helped me work towards not just my Glassdoor goals but my personal career goals. GD is also flexible on things like taking an afternoon off for a doctor's appointment or changing your working hours to fit your schedule. I'm able to block off time in the middle of the day to go grocery shopping when the stores are empty. The Senior Director of D&I really seems to care, I like him a lot. I trust Glassdoor to work to make it a more inclusive workplace, but we have a lot way to go to be someplace that's comfortable for oft-marginalized people.

Cons

There's a limit to the flexibility. I don't have kids but I've witnessed some stress among my coworkers with kids with WFH/stay-at- home orders/daycare shutdowns. There's acknowledgement that folks may be less productive but no reduction in workload. Deadlines seem pretty arbitrary, we end up stressed out particularly around hitting product-based deadline when it seems the deadline just comes from "it's on the roadmap". Based on my work experience, this is very typical in software companies, but Glassdoor is generally smart so I don't understand why we can't get over this very very typical flaw. Corporate leadership talks the talk about caring about our mental health during mandatory WFH but we haven't really slowed down the pace of work at all (the thing that would do the most to help us cope during a one-in-a-lifetime period of stress and sadness). The layoffs over the summer were really sad :(.

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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
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Pros

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Cons

During covid things started getting bad. Like many other companies layoffs came around and how the company handled those were terrible. You show up one day and next thing you know you lose access and cryptic email and then your'e gone. This happened again in 2025. They brought in person whose job it was to basically get people to leave. They didn't care about the content on the site, or any of the efforts in place to promote integrity and transparency and instead just wanted to shove AI down everyone's throat. What's sad is that Glassdoor was once a great company that I was proud to say I worked for. Now it's just like everywhere else, AI, AI, AI and trying to get people to quit before the next round of layoffs.

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