World Data Lab Reviews

As a member of a passionate global team, you collaborate with international experts on a variety of exciting projects. The entire team, including management and leadership, is very supportive and always ready to help. Moreover, there are ample opportunities for personal and professional growth, allowing you to expand your skill set and take on greater responsibilities. In my role as a data scientist, my work has encompassed using machine learning models for analyses and predictions, advising private sector clients, writing academic papers, and delivering presentations to diverse audiences.

WDL offers lots of interesting work if you like data science, economics, or statistics. They partner with a lot of economists at different global institutions and universities so there are a lot of smart people to work with and learn from. Ambitious and hard working people get promoted and rise, multiple people have gone from intern to Senior Data Scientist. I've never felt pressure to not take sick days, and WDL is definitely flexible about "work-cations". I have worked occasionally extra hours on workdays, but only rarely had to work on weekends. The CEO is sharp with numbers and pays a lot of attention to the quality of our data products, which is really refreshing compared to other places I've been, where people will talk endlessly about "AI" but not even really understand how it works or think critically about if their models are making reasonable predictions.