Challenging projects - Market Research Analyst WaveMetrix Employee Review

flexibility to work from home, getting to work with movie data and some semi interesting deep learning topics

CTO is also part owner, workaholic and expects the same out of you regardless of pay. Started out as "cool guy" boss then quickly turned into slave driver. You could not finish projects fast enough for him. Never showed an ounce of gratitude for going the extra mile even when working weekends to do so. Has tendancy to be extremely vague and makes you feel like an idiot if you have to ask questions to get clarity. Be prepared spend way too much time just deciphering what he actually wants. Only way to do something the way you want to do it is convince the boss man it was his idea. Immediately tries to volunteer your weekends. His UK counterpart is even worse. They've made people cry, work 24 hour shifts, called me at 2-3am to yell, all without showing the slightest remorse. I've seen management throwing things while yelling like a capitulant child. Benefits are almost non-existent (bare-minimum). Bonus was a joke. Bizarrely, CTO tells YOU how long tasks should take to complete and often sets way too little time. Last straw for me was company tried pushing liability for GDPR to you, the developer. They are a cesspool of everything that is wrong with social media big data companies. They scrape or use API's to gather user data from Facebook, Instagram, Wikipedia, YouTube & Twitter. They don't abide/adhere to official API terms, and expose you to the liability, awesome right? Too cheap to buy a printer, literally expects you to print stuff out at home and bring it in. Revolving door of developers for all the reasons above. Avoid x 10.

flexibility to sign up for projects whenever one has spare time is great for students pay is decent considering that you can work from home decent chance to develop skills useful for full-time employment after uni (e.g. attention to detail, communication with research executives, time management, stress management, self-motivation) performance feedback on each project

work can be mentally tiring sometimes high pressure to work additional hours if project comes to an end when signing up to a project usually a high number of hours/week is required (for a student)