Pros
- As previous reviewers have written, the "trauma bonding" is real. Other fellow researchers are great and have a lot of potential, but we are all united in our misfortune of ending up at Exiger. - There's also WFH flexibility, but that's not very unique now in the age of COVID. - You won't be unemployed.
Kontras
Same thing that everyone's been saying for the past several years: researchers are severely overworked. As a people pleaser, I've spent several consecutive nights working well past midnight to meet deadlines at the expense of both my physical and mental health. This company had me working like a college student during finals week again, only every week is finals week. Good work only gets recognized with an occasional shout out in the "Notes from QA" emails and when people realize that you consistently do a good job, you only end up with a greater workload. The company describes itself as "fast growing" and researchers will experience this firsthand by how much work is subcontracted out (due to low internal capacity) that then needs to be reviewed by researchers internally. Too often, the subcontracted work is subpar and researchers will have to then suffer the consequences of essentially redoing entire reports when there's a time crunch (which there almost always is). Management will also have the audacity to ask researchers directly to volunteer for extra work when no one else wants to do it, and though this extra work is compensated, a business model that relies so heavily on volunteer work is not sustainable. You'll attend company wide meetings where management will say something along the lines of them being aware that researchers are overworked and that morale is low, but they won't do anything that will address the issues effectively. They gave a few random days off during the pandemic as "Exiger Days" to thank employees for their hard work, only for employees to be met with extra work right before/after the holidays, which defeats the purpose of those days off.
