Pros
- Reverso maintains some of the best linguistic tools out there and has great data to support them.
- My colleagues were extremely nice and seemed to have both talent and focus.
- The pay was a bit higher than I expected.
- There wasn't much time dedicated to the usual management routine: no everyday reports, no daily scrum meetings. I found that appealing after a work experience where reporting was overwhelming.
Kontras
- Irregular micromanagement is highly frustrating. Weeks could go by in silence, then I would have to explain all the minutiae and answer tons of questions for several days afterwards.
- Data science field has seen so many breakthroughs over the past few years, and yet there has not been enough work done in this direction at Reverso. Interns are promised exciting work on new features, then drown in low-level routine without ever fulfilling their potential as engineers. A certain amount of workload could be easily automated away. This is because the main focus at Reverso is not so much on quality improvements, despite the constant talk about them, but rather on solving bad cases, and this kind of optimization is unsustainable.
- Unclear goals and metrics as a result of sporadic, shallow management as well as lack of knowledge about SOTA.
- I was discussed in emails with other people, who found these discussions rather shocking and inappropriate. Behind my back, I was often belittled. Worse, I am aware that mine is not a unique case.
