Poor organization and Leadership - Senior Principal Site Reliability Engineer MasterControl Employee Review

1.0
Jan 25, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

The company runs on the backs of some great people doing their best to keep things running. There are some really awesome folks to work alongside.

Cons

Mastercontrol is a study in how the "We are a family" attitude can be toxic. The Technical VPs and Directors actively work against quality engineering and quality of life improvement. The direction and focus of the Product Leadership is out of touch with engineering direction. The ability of managers and directors to lead they groups is highly variable and very disruptive. They have a habit of promoting people for their time and not their skills with Senior Engineers having skills that are completely misaligned with the role they are in. The all hands meetings usually involve lots of yelling and full production videos of the executive staff acting out skits. Take that for what it's worth.

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5.0
Jan 21, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Company is good and people are good . Great work life balance

Cons

Leadership is still evolving .

2.0
Jul 17, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Great people and culture. Solid benefits, Health insurance paid 100%.

Cons

Comp is ok. Promotions are almost impossible to get. Constant layoffs, maybe 5-7 times in the past 12 months? Engineering leadership is constantly switching priorities and lacks vision, transparency, and ownership. Long-standing traditions are now being canceled, likely to save money. Poor AI posture in engineering. Engineers are encouraged to spend ridiculous amounts on AI tokens, then the company does layoffs because it spent too much on AI.

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