Thinking Machines

• With so many different projects and clients, and the short-term nature of most projects, you work on several different projects in a year and end up learning a lot of different ML/DS/DE skills, techniques, and applications. There's never a boring moment because there's always some other task that could use your help.

• Most colleagues are very engaged in the work and in self-improving their skills and keeping up with the latest in ML. It's very collaborative, and the excitement is contagious.

• Almost all roles on a team are "client-facing," and everyone is present at client sync-ups, which is a good opportunity to understand users and their problems deeply.

• There's no expectation of working on weekends, though some folks certainly spend Sundays catching up on the latest in ML!

• If you thrive in a hustler/achiever environment, this is for you.

Unlike bigger companies, the technical/engineer roles are not separated from the client-facing roles, so engineers need to spend more time/energy dealing directly with clients rather than focusing on the pure technical side.

Moreover, being a consultancy, the culture celebrates Sales wins more than Engineering wins, and everyone is encouraged to be Sales-minded.

The work was also quite stressful in my experience because of working on two client projects at the same time. There was never a moment to catch your breath; there was always a deadline looming, and you could never explain to your client that you were busy on the other client's project.