Dataminr Company
Hey all, I've just been reached out by Dataminr recruiter. I don't much about the AI start up. Think it's worth it to interview for? For employees there, what's the work like in software??
This is a terrible company, led by deadbeats. Stay away. Far far away.
Dataminr is actually a great company with excellent culture, solving very interesting problems using advanced tech and AI. Evidence is the very low attrition rate in engineering. Company has been steadily growing and recently raised series F of $500M towards an IPO in 2 years. Great time to join.
Nonsense. Dataminr is a trash company with a trash culture and no real product
You have no idea what you’re talking about. Obvious that you never worked there, or didn’t pass their interview process.
Lol Amazon is sour they work for a company with a trash culture. Dataminr is a phenomenal company that offers top tier compensation packages given their half a billion $ raise in March (lots of cash on the balance sheet to deploy) and looking to IPO in ~2 years like Verizon said. Probably the best time to join an up and coming AI company with public aspirations
I wonder if the valuation is fair, since their advertised “AI” is primarily news analysts screening data feeds and sending most of the alerts manually. Great PR leads to great valuation but an IPO will require them to disclosure more information about their processes and I’m not sure the current numbers will stay the same.
Wrong assumption. I work there (haven’t updated my blind profile) and we are 90% using automation. Human in the loop is necessary as some content is very sensitive and needs verification. It is not driven by humans but by models running on firehose of data.
I love that the people that work (or have worked at 7th layer of hell tier companies (like Verizon, JP Morgan) are talking up dataminr, while FAANG employees are calling up dataminr for what it is. Guess it’s all about prospective. I guess if you spent four years in a Gulag, dataminr wouldn’t seem that bad either.
Once again, Amazon guy, you don’t know what you are talking about. Before yahoo (acquired by verizon) i worked at Facebook, as well as a few other well known tech giants, so please don’t condescend. I have very good perspectives. Also, don’t even get me started about the work culture at Amazon.
Oh you have worked there too I guess? Wow, you are quite the cosmopolitan.
Heard more than one current/former employees talking about how dataminr systemically prefer white candidates/employees: compared to other races, white engineering candidates pass interviews without writing a single line of code, and white employees get promoted much more easily. Hope it is not true, can anyone working there confirm?
As a senior engineering leader at Dataminr i can tell you that this is not true. I have seen many interview packets and have spoken to many diverse candidates who had a fair and similar experience. We treat all candidates the same. Also with promotions - i am a diverse leader myself, and have promoted people based on their performance and readiness. Other leaders are the same. We work very hard to always improve with everything related to DEI, there’s always room for more but we’re committed.
Thank you!
Dataminr is heading for IPO soon and there are few Microsoft people joining there. including VP of Engineering for one of the group. May be they are hiring at a rapid pace curruntly.
I am leaving Facebook to join Dataminr in Jan
Did you join? Got some questions
Great company, great culture and top comp. a lot of interesting problems to solve with smart people.
Top Comp @Dataminr = What numbers?
Top Comp @Dataminr = What numbers?
OP, what did you learn about them so far? I am surprised no one from Dataminr answered over here.