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Interesting job from a technical point of view but bad salary - Software Developer Matrox Electronic Systems Employee Review

4.0
Aug 29, 2009
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Pros

- Challenging job from a technical point of view - Nice, understanding employees and managers - No stress (maybe not enough? Is this normal?) - Quiet stable company but slowly going down (is this a pro or a con?)

Cons

- Bad salary - Salary increase happens when owners decide so and it doesn't happen very often. At the very least, I would expect an explanation every year to explain us why we have no salary increase - Everyone gets very similar salary increase, no formal performance review - Bad schedule management. Usually, management guess a number, which always ends up being 2 times too short. Is this normal that I know from the start that a project will take 2 times longer than estimated? Ask for schedules then you may get better ones! - Management unwilling to make changes so that things become more efficient. - Quiet stable company but slowly going down (is this a pro or a con?) - Owners don't get along very well and they are very careful with their money, not willing to take any financial risk, which makes employees not as motivated as they could be.

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4.0
Apr 20, 2023
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Pros

I got to put my skills to the test in developing automating scripts in Bash for the Linux operating system, this was to automate and make my life easier in reproducing customer systems so that we could eliminate any issues from hardware related differences. I also learned a lot about image processing, cameras and smart cameras (that is ones with a built in operating systems closer to that of a PC). I was made to understand the in-house Matrox Imaging Library, a software-development library for interfacing with Matrox's own hardware and any type of supported camera. Most of my time was spent in helping customers develop solutions for their issues with the Matrox Imaging Library, this often consisted of either developing examples that introduced the capabilities of MIL to customers, or it would consist of analyzing customers code and finding where they went wrong which lead to their issues.

Cons

When I took this stage, I wanted a stage that was more heavily focused on software development. That being said I still earned ample amount of experience in programming and spent most of my free-time when I wasn't busy and assigned a task furthering my experience in programming.

3.0
Nov 29, 2023
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Pros

Great Technology and competitive products for the inspection market

Cons

Company was purchased new management changed the sales channel which resulted in lost customer relationships.

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