Overall good experience - PTO needs improvement - Anonymous employee Mathematica Employee Review

4.0
Aug 7, 2024
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Colleagues are great and super supportive; complete flexibility - you can pick any balance of remote/in-office and basically any hours as long as they line up enough for team meetings; you can literally work anywhere, many staff members are even working abroad now; ability to switch back and forth from full time to part time; competitive pay for most positions; transparent salary ranges; ability to really pave your own path if you want to change between business units/roles; HR regularly takes staff surveys and actually does implement some changes from them; benefits are pretty decent, especially the employee stock and 401k contributions; overall pretty great work-life balance as long as you communicate with your supervisor well.

Cons

Time off is majorly lacking compared to other companies. You start out with 19 PTO days (includes sick/personal/etc. time). There are 8 paid holidays and even though the company claims to be completely DEI driven you don't get Juneteenth. If you're part time, you don't receive any full holidays (so if you're 80%, you would get off 6.4 hours and need to reserve 1.6 hours of PTO to have a holiday off); P1-P2 staff are ineligible for any bonuses; work load can vary and get way too high or low at times if you aren't proactive about monitoring your upcoming work closely.

Explore other reviews about Mathematica

5.0
Apr 11, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great colleagues, 401k match, and interesting work

Cons

Work life balance could be improved and more ability to move between departments

3.0
Jun 29, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

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.

7
See reviews by: Helpful|Rating|Date|All