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Great company, annoying restrictions - Software Developer Matrox Electronic Systems Employee Review

4.0
Jul 4, 2008
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Pros

Stability: There is a very low turnover rate at Matrox, in part because it is a privately own company that is very proactive on market changes and they keep their good people through bad times even if it costs them. Other advantages are collateral but important for some: parking on site, pool, gym, showers, onsite cafeteria with good and fairly cheap meals, the location is out of the downtown area permitting suburbians to go to work without traffic concerns. It is also right beside a managed wooden area, great for a run or walk at lunch time.

Cons

My main problem with Matrox is the lack of trust in its employees. For example, the gym and pool are closed during working hours. I would love to go workout around 2:00 when I am just not productive anyway, but I can't. Same for the internet, half the web is blocked. I can't even check my mail at Google. Consequently, telecommuting is out of the question. The salaries are also generally low compared to the rest of the industry.

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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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