Smart, kind people, disorganized company - Researcher Mathematica Employee Review

4.0
Sep 16, 2025
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Pros

For the most part I enjoyed working here. Nearly everyone I worked with was very smart and kind, which was important because you were typically working with many different people across many projects.

Cons

Poor system for assigning staff to projects. It seemed that people were either over staffed or understaffed, and the organization doesn’t have a good way to distribute the workload more evenly. When you’re understaffed there is constant pressure to increase your billable hours, but you have almost no control over getting assigned to more projects. Advice from managers is to “email your teams to see if there’s anything else you can take on.” You must promote yourself heavily to get assigned to leadership roles, and managers seemed to have little understanding of your actual skills and how you might be best utilized on projects.

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5.0
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Great colleagues, 401k match, and interesting work

Cons

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3.0
Jun 29, 2026
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Pros

Smart people, impactful work. A real community.

Cons

Poor strategic planning. Rather than performing real analysis and proactive thinking, leadership reacts to the environment. Strategy development and implementation at Mathematica seems like leadership throws wet spaghetti against the wall to see what sticks. In the 2010s, it was predictive modeling. Rather than proactively using predictive modeling to support their client's goals and the organization's mission, they created a data analytics division, hired smart people, and provided no guidance to support the division. Today, AI has replaced predictive modeling. These examples provide two instances of failures of corporate leadership; many more exist. Unfortunately, the company suffers from short-term incentives and an aversion to long-term investments. As an employee-owned company, you would think that the board and leadership would be more responsive to the employees. No! Over time, they have removed employees' voices from decision-making and focused on increasing their own power and independence.

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