Company with a clear mission, strong technical expertise and a product to match. - Senior Machine Learning Researcher Secondmind Employee Review

- Great, supportive management with clear direction - Team embraces technical challenges and encourages high standards - High level of autonomy, allowing for meaningful impact - Collaborative, friendly culture that values diversity - Overall, a strong environment for both growth and contribution

- It requires commitment and accountability, which can be challenging but rewarding

• Some fantastic employees. • Opportunities to learn about SotA probabilistic modelling/Bayesian optimisation approaches

• Management seem to keep making the same mistakes, ignoring feedback from employees, and then when things fail they will say that the problems were unforeseeable. • There's been two sets of redundancies in a 7 month period. During this, management has tended to be unaffected, or have received title bumps. • Low morale had led to a major brain drain of the best talent at the company. The company is around half the size that it was a year prior, and continues to shrink. • Constant restructures, imposed top-down. • Little avenue for growth. While this isn't unusual for small companies, Secondmind had used "number of promotions" as a metric when deciding who to make redundant, ignoring the fact that it's easy to get in a position where you cannot be promoted unless your boss quits.