Business Apps Department | No Importance to Quality, Skill Development | Traditional approach - Senior Web Applications Developer MathWorks Employee Review

1.0
Nov 25, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Free breakfast and lunch. Generally good work–life balance. The Engineering / Product departments seem to have better projects that support skill growth and career development. I honestly can’t think of any pros specific to the Business Apps department.

Cons

Obsession with “velocity” and delivery metrics, often at the expense of real value. Claims to follow Agile, but in practice there is very little focus on process, quality, or the end customer. Some managers lack basic professional communication etiquette and tend to be controlling and micromanaging, which makes the team environment stressful. Roles and responsibilities are unclear — there is no real separation between manager, scrum master, and product owner. Below-market pay for a full-stack developer. Very few (if any) projects that actually help with skill development or long-term career growth. Traditional and backward approach to the SDLC, resistant to modern best practices.

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5.0
Jul 22, 2026
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Pros

Great worlk life balance and culture

Cons

More support work than ideal

4.0
Jul 23, 2026
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Pros

Nice small team, personal office, breakfast and lunch. Some excellent engineers are really helpful and love to share and teach. Best work-life balance for most teams.

Cons

Office politics since the reorganization, that is really not good for working. Even though there are still some excellent senior and principal engineers who are really helpful, something that happened is distract the work and betrayed their values.

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