Don't work here if you care about your mental health - Anonymous employee Mathematica Employee Review

1.0
Aug 2, 2024
Anonymous employee
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Pros

I like my colleagues. Most people I work with are kind and intelligent, which makes it even more unfortunate how the company pits us against each other.

Cons

I genuinely thought I would stay at Mathematica for the rest of my career when I was first hired. Over the past couple years, and particularly in the past few months as management made a mess of things, I've completely changed my perspective. Mathematica's workplace is unsupportive and hostile, despite the quality of most individual employees. This speaks to how deep management issues are and how they negatively influence every level of employment at the company. Mathematica's corporate management is solely profit-driven while trying to overwork people under the guise of being mission-driven, even though c-suite executives they are really just trying to line their own pockets. No amount of spouting nonsense about "love and magic" during shareholder meetings can cover that up (that's a direct quote from our CEO). There's nothing loving, magical, or even decent about the fear-based workplace environment management creates.

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3.0
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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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