Awful working place - Data Scientist UBS Employee Review

1.0
May 14, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The salary is not bad.

Cons

Awful strategic planning. Managers are just looking for trendy keywords to apply to what they’re doing so the can get the budget for their team in the companies internal market but don’t actually intend to do the job (like machine learning or deep learning). The internal market makes it almost impossible for teams to collaborate and you wait a huge amount of time for other people to deliver on what they’re supposed to do. There’s no budget for innovation and whichever proof of concept gets created it always ends up in the pile of ‘good to have but will never move to production’ projects.

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

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