[emmanuel_1234]

Woah, that was exactly my previous position.

Upside: I had one of the most paying position among the technical people. I also got to play with expensive stuff.

Downside: it was soul crushing, I was delivering no value whatsoever and had a really hard time looking at my colleagues in the eye, as they were making a third of my salary (at best).

I got out, joined a new company with that in mind and now have a very exciting job. They do have a dedicated R&D, Data Science team which is a shit show: absolutely brilliant people completely wasted as they can't build anything for lack of programming/technology experience, in an environment where their theoretical skills are mostly useless. I'm genuinely sad for them.

[edit: one of the company still has a Hadoop/Spark cluster for their whooping 500Mb of data]