Are hours for data scientists at the big 4 as bad as it is for regular consultants?

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No. We're harder to recruit, so there's more focus on retaining us. :)

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I work a solid few hours a day. But I honestly deliver invaluable results through domain knowledge and tech skills that others don’t have or can’t put the pieces together to do

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Not at all

Currently not on a data science related project. When I was it was long hours (50-60). But again this is because of the clients high demands and some internal staffing issues.

For any question about hours at big 4, it’s impossible to get an exact number because it depends on the client and team.

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Ex-Big 4 SM here. I would say that it depends. Typically my teams worked comparable hours to non-analytics consultants. I had a few teams that were internally focused and those folks worked 40hr weeks (same pay).

I think I work more than regular consultants because I need to bring all of Business, Tech and Analytics together, whereas regular consultants focus only on one of them.

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