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Wasted Potential - Avis employé Software Engineer Narrative Science

2,0
4 août 2014
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Avantages

I worked with a really great team of bright, fun engineers. There are some interesting engineering problems to be solved at the company, but unfortunately access to working on the interesting stuff is very uneven.

Inconvénients

Poor management has somehow produced an ineffective engineering team out of a really talented group of engineers. The team is split between working on solved problems (like writing it's own lousy version of ZooKeeper) grinding engineers against repetitive tasks that would be solvable if they were treated like engineering problems (never-ending data munging but no attempt to actually build a platform to solve common data needs) and madly trying to keep the pile of technical debt it's produced afloat.

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5,0
26 janv. 2022
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Avantages

Great people, intelligent leadership, strong communication

Inconvénients

Strategy is always in flux

2,0
16 sept. 2019
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Avantages

Company has a great variety of talented and smart people who all are willing to help and support one another. Concept of NLG and its technological applications is very exciting to work on - you will learn something new every day. In addition, there is now an excellent network of company alumni in the Chicago area and beyond.

Inconvénients

Salaries across the company are well below market for Chicago. In addition, there is a chronic communication problem between senior leadership and the rest of the company. This also included dismissal at all-hands meeting of internal issues (employee satisfaction, compensation, etc.) and external issues (e.g. competitor products/strategy). Diversity in talent was also communicated as a strategic priority for the company, but it has seemingly failed to deliver any sort of tangible progress or results on this matter in the last year and a half. In addition, leadership in the company (C-suite and SVP's) and on its Board of Directors is still predominantly male.

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Réponse de Narrative Science
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Thanks for leaving feedback on your experience at Narrative Science. Based on our compensation research and benchmarking, we believe our salaries are in line with the market for tech companies of our size in Chicago (as well as Seattle and New York where we have small offices). That being said, we are continuously refreshing this data to ensure we remain competitive. Your feedback is a good reminder that we need to keep this top of mind. From a diversity perspective, we have not seen a dramatic change in the demographic breakdown of our employee or board population in the last 1.5 years but we have taken action in a number of ways to ensure that we have a diverse, equitable and inclusive environment at Narrative Science. We’ve done this through educating our team on a variety of DEI related topics (such as unconscious bias, gender identity + pronouns, allyship) and engaging in community outreach and activities (by attending DEI events and building partnerships with organizations that increase awareness of opportunities in tech for underrepresented minorities). In addition, we’ve taken a hard look at our recruiting and general people practices and made adjustments to eliminate bias. It often takes time to see tangible results from this work but we are proud of what we’ve achieved to date and will continue to focus on action that will make us better. Lastly, we continue to work on communication and are constantly trying new methods of communication to ensure that everyone has the information they need, through the appropriate channels.
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