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What is the day to day like?

• spywaregorilla 5y ago
  Depends wildly on geography and group. For me Pre-covid, traveling to client sites sunday evening through thursday on about 80% of weeks. Avg day 10-12 hours with periods of harder hours, which can be a lot but is easier to do when you're going to a hotel with all of your food taken care of (compared to living at home and having responsibilities and a commute). Never worked weekends though. Most work happens in a group of ~3-7 people over months. New manager every time, but it's cool if you ask their previous teammembers if they were nice to work with before you commit to a new project. Things move fast. You usually come in with a mandate from the top to peel back red tape. A ton of meetings listening to people, synthesizing their inputs, and coming up with a plan on what to do about it. If you're on the tech / data analytics side, it'll be more of listening to how they accomplish X today, thinking about how it could be done smarter, and working with the client to come up with a basic model that does X better. Feedback culture is strong. It's very hard to do well if you're not actively part of the team. Maybe like... a bougy hackathon vibe.