Pros
- Paid Training. - You are essentially paid to upskill if you are on the bench. - If you're on the bench you may as well go on holiday, Kubrick will never know, as long as you make it to the daily morning stand up you could literally work a second job, - Huge consultant population of young professionals, if you are in your 20s, this place is as good as it gets to make friends at work who are of a similar age as you. - Trainers and senior consultants are very good at what they do, Kubrick runs in house training led by these people, so there's a good chance you will learn a few things. (But these training sessions are rare, post paid training you are in charge of your own learning). - Despite other reviews I believe Kubrick is actually an industry leader in terms of consultant compensation. It's very easy to think you are under paid at Kubrick, as a new consultant, while you look at other salaries for similar roles elsewhere. This is until you actually start applying for roles elsewhere and realise as a junior data professional, how little you really know in the grand scheme of things.
Cons
- HUGE, ABSOLUTELY MASSIVE disconnect between the account managers and the consultants. The way they dodge communicating with consultants is very impressive. Olympic level dodgeball atheltes, truly. The only way I could actually get a chance to talk to them was by catching them in the office in person. Messages on teams to them may as well be sent via glassbottle in the ocean. - You are very much at the whim of the market and Kubrick's consultant placement team as a consultant, very talented consultants are pushed through the most convoluted interview and assessment pipelines with zero chance of placement, whilst other less talented consultants are placed after a pulse check interview with a client. - Long waiting times on the bench, you will hear legends of consultants sat on the bench for over a year. You could upskill till the heat death of the universe, your luck may be so awful you'll just never get placed - Having to undergo client interviews before placement. I feel a lot of work needs to be done to overcome this obstacle, otherwise Kubrick consultants will continue to suffer. But then after you see how much Kubrick charges clients for consultants you understand why they basically expect consultants to be a full stack engineers. There's obviously a balance to be struck here, but it's honestly hilarious how some consultants who know next to nothing are shipped off onto client site before you can blink and others who are worth double their salary are sweating for their jobs on the bench. - Risk of redundancy, read other reviews you will soon get a taste of what's been cooking at Kubrick.