Pros
1. Work-life balance 2. No politics - superb co-workers 3. Hands on experience in Ms-Excel, an essential skill that can be mastered here 4. Nice culture 5. Well behaving and friendly senior management 6. Some really good and talented individuals strong in leadership, economics, statistics, R, SAS, Tableau and Excel. They are really good minds. You will learn from them.
Cons
1. Don't fall for the phrase Analyst/Asst. Analyst/Sr. Analyst/Researcher/Sr. Researcher 'Economic Research', it's just plain and blunt data download and copy paste. A work that requires a plain simple class 12 knowledge. Don't waste your masters degree. 2. The job description that will be provided to you and the job that you will be doing has hell and heaven difference. The management hires people saying big big phrases and words (which only 30% of the team knows and they themselves don't know) but when you will start working on the process, you will start applying to other jobs. 3. Quantity matters. If you balance between quality and quantity, your growth will be stunted 4. Zero domain knowledge of 60% of the team members. They are doing the job because its 9 -6, a decent pay (according to them) and stable team. 5. Whenever something new crops up, for 1-2 weeks, there will be lot of buzz, everyone seems interested but after that all subsides. 6. If you join here, forget about career growth. You will never go up the ladder on the basis of your performance. You have to do the imploring and heavy negotiations and literally beg to the management. Have your self-respect, they are not worthy of begging. 7. There are two divisions- Country and City. Job of country team: copy, paste the estimation of IMF & WB, and drag to 'forecast'. In excel, obviously. The results are good by the way! City database team- 'forecast' the economic indicators. In plain english, download, cut-copy-paste do a novice-st level 'exponential smoothing'. They forecast everything. How? They don't know. City profiles team- Write and write!!!! abcdefg 123456 There are still many more. I hope you get the point. Just a piece of advice- when you get a call for interview use your knowledge to the full, the interviewer will remain silent!!! & don't expect any training.
