Vantaggi
- supportive environment especially for upskilling
- high collaboration (ability to work on projects with colleagues)
- many opportunities to do highly visible work like lead presentations/webinars and publishing blogs
- comprehensive and robust training period (gives a great overview of the data analytics life cycle through the lens of Tableau and Alteryx)
- great network/community (ability to interact with international colleagues for mentorship, training, shadowing)
- licenses/certifications are paid by the employer
- consultants on "bench" aren't penalized
- mental health-related accommodations/concerns are prioritized
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Putting aside troubles with economy and how that has affected the newer teams, this company is *the* model to look to for building analytics talent within the Tableau/Alteryx ecosystems.
I think the New York team can prosper once the CRM challenge stabilizes and the team can integrate tools/services that aren't as tool-sensitive (Tableau/Alteryx are great but tool-agnostic knowledge/services are essential).
Focusing on key concepts such as data modeling, data warehousing, access control/management and business value discovery will be critical for the team to improve its reputation, build deeper partnerships and expand/diversify its client base.
I think there's a growing demand/interest in areas of data work that isn't just traditional BI reporting/data visualization-type tasks. I think more work can be done with integrating DevOps and analytics engineering-related tasks.
Svantaggi
- prolonged periods of time on "bench" (not doing client-facing work)
- pro-bono/"pre-sales" work may not always be available
- customer acquisition/retention is a very tricky balancing act especially for a small/new team that has to build its reputation from the ground up