Good salary and learning, but toxic culture affects balance - Consultant Beghou Employee Review

Smart people, good technical skills

Work life balance can be tough and project-dependent

The company has a very structured, hierarchical environment, which may appeal to people who prefer a traditional corporate setting. Work moves quickly and you’re expected to figure things out and take ownership of your responsibilities early on. You’re also exposed to fairly technical work right away. At the time I worked there, the role was mostly work-from-home, which was a nice perk.

This role may appeal to someone who prefers long stretches of solitary technical work. The role is often framed as consulting, but in practice, most engagements are long-term, multi-year relationships with the same clients focused on maintaining and managing data infrastructure. Internally, the work is proudly described as “data stewardship.” Day-to-day responsibilities are heavily technical and coding-focused. The vast majority of the work involves mundane data cleaning, data pipeline development, and maintaining datasets. Opportunities for business consulting work are essentially nonexistent. Expectations often resemble those of data science or software engineering roles, while compensation is a fraction of what those roles typically command. Training and onboarding were minimal, yet expectations for output were extremely high from the beginning.