Enter at your own risk - Director/Vice President MicroStrategy Employee Review

1.0
Dec 10, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

CEO's tweets are often entertaining

Cons

The CEO/Chairman/majority shareholder uses this public company as his personal playground. For the 2nd half of 2020, he has been attempting to manipulate the markets for both Bitcoin and his company's stock. Just look at his tweets and the number of interviews and podcasts he's done since he invested all the company's cash into Bitcoin. Now he has the company do a public debt offering so he can borrow money to make an even bigger Bitcoin investment. This raises many questions: Is this company a tech company or an investment company? How much does the company put into software development vs Bitcoin investment? How is the Board allowing this to happen? Maybe it has something to do with them basing their decisions off of YouTube videos. Is the MicroStrategy website supposed to be promoting a product or Bitcoin? Are CEO's allowed to make outrageous and factually untrue statements about something that has a direct effect on that company's stock price? Even if you make yourself comfortable with all of that, you face one of the most demanding work environments you'll ever work in. Unreasonable and completely arbitrary deadlines. Absolutely no consideration for employees' personal lives or any form of work life balance. Passive aggressive micromanagement from the top. Centralized decision making by two individuals - nobody has the ability or nerve to question them, and employee's work blindly and exhaustively on pet projects that never get off the ground.

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5.0
Jun 16, 2026
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Pros

Outcome-driven. Room to grow. No micromanaging.

Cons

Startup culture. High turnover & layoffs

3.0
Jun 14, 2026
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Pros

You will learn ALOT here and if you can stomach the culture you can get promoted quickly or move teams with little friction. Above market rate benefits that start Day 1 Generally speaking good camaraderie amongst the worker ranks I’ve held multiple roles and have appreciated the opportunities to travel internationally which was life changing The product has a little bit of a learning curve but it genuinely is something special once it’s up and running I felt that towards the end of my tenure my pay was exemplary although I really had to earn it

Cons

Wowwwww where to begin… Well it’s a top down organisation but also a market laggard. Given our position relative to our competitors this regime of leadership is responsible for missing the moment in Cloud, BI and AI. Middle management and upper management alike don’t have a clue and it’s definitely a soap opera of leadership and empire or cult building. Not a great feeling of purpose when everything you do internally as well as with customers is overshadowed by Bitcoin. Dwindling customer base. We’re really only making money by replacing ironically technologies older than us (Cognos,BOBJ) or moving existing customers to our managed cloud The community is totally dead especially internationally. Minimal on the ground experts at strategy and a very loose and underfunded partner program Product conceptually is great but struggles to differentiate from hyperscalers and modern cloud data platforms on value. Leadership can definitely get a little preachy touting merits or metrics that are pretty vain in the big picture Specifically in the last 3 years gaslighting has been the norm for management. Everything here feels performative and doing your best to do your work without upstaging or upsetting your manager. The RSU distribution definitely feels like serfdom. The employees at the bottom get a single digit or if you’re a heretic you get double digit number of RSUs, but it definitely does not seem fair that the benefits of the Bitcoin strategy rolled to the top, at least when the asset is up

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