4.0
Sep 1, 2015
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Fantastic benefits, lots of great people, terrific products
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The review process could take eons and be very defeating (too many people had to review every last detail).
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4.3
89% would recommend to a friend
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2.0
Aug 31, 2015
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I have been working at MathWorks for a decade now. Overall it is a good company with lots of good and smart people. There is a decent work life balance. When working at MathWorks, you have the opportunity to help create something that scientists and engineers will use to make the next big discoveries.
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There are some very bad apples at MathWorks. These are incompetent people, who are in middle management only because they joined the company early on, and MathWorks values loyalty more than competency. Some of these managers suffer from inferiority complex because they can clearly see that they are not as competent as the people they pretend to manage. My manager is one such person. If there is any issue he likes to blame it on others and does not take responsibility of the overall quality of the product or its direction. His people skills are as abyssal as his technical skills. He often talks badly about other people in the team when talking with me and I am sure he badmouths me behind my back. Even though it is clear that the product that he is managing is going nowhere and is stuck in time MathWorks rewards his loyalty by letting him continue. He also insults people in team meetings and is blatantly sarcastic. He routinely comes late to one-on-one meetings or skips them altogether and pretends as if nothing happened. His demeanor is aggressive. Some of the things that he is doing may be corporate bullying but complaints from people go unheeded. As a result of his bad treatment many people have left the team in last few years. I think some people have made this known to the senior management still there is no action. I will leave as soon as I get a good offer. People interviewing at MathWorks should avoid such teams. If you are observant during the interview and ask the right questions you will be able to figure out if you are interviewing with such a team.
4.0
Aug 11, 2015
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Top management is very stable, has long term vision, executes well and is very capable. When faced with tough business conditions over the years, they have reacted in rational and thoughtful ways rather than just resorting to layoffs or short-sighted (and ultimately, useless) cost controls I've seen at other firms. They have stayed the course and kept to the plan rather than reacting in panic to quarterly results. A nice change versus public companies that live and die by what Wall St. says. Being privately held allows for a lot more freedom. MATLAB and Simulink are well known products in their markets. In some markets they are the undisputed champion, in others there is stiff competition. Allows for a mix of pace setting/holding the course for some teams, more of a startup environment for others. Office environment is nice, for many positions you get your own office with a door that shuts. Those who work in cube farms and build elaborate defense mechanisms against distractions will love this. Benefits are quite good. Vacation, health, etc are all nice. Profit sharing takes the place of stock options or other such programs and delivers cash into your bank account rather than useless slips of paper that never vest, or that get underwater. Managers are generally OK with flexing hours and are not clock-watchers. Some people come in early and leave early, others come in later and leave later. Same for appointments that happen during the day. Nobody tracks if you had to go to the dentist for an hour or run an errand. The path from doing support (EDG) to working internally is fantastic. You learn the product and the customers, and then put to work internally in another department. I've never felt pressure to check email or log in outside of working hours on any regular occasion. There have been a few times I've needed to work late or on a weekend, but there was generally a very fine and justifiable reason for doing so, and those occasions are most definitely exceptional and not considered a part of day-to-day operations.
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Telecommuting policy is "there is no telecommuting". If you are the kind of person who doesn't mind commuting, this won't be a con. But Route 9 is godawful at rush hour during school months, as are most other roads that get to Natick -- the Pike, 128, even the surface roads devolve into a traffic Armageddon around rush hour. Management does allow some schedule flexing, but when you add things like getting kids to school, life may not afford such schedule flexing. Transferring positions within the company isn't very straightforward outside of the EDG route. If you want to switch jobs after doing something for a while, the process can be very tedious. It's not exactly clear what it takes to get a promotion or raise, aside from going from a fresh college graduate to someone with some experience. There are defined job levels, but there's not a clear set of goals to go from one level to the next level. There's a large pool of people who get to one level and then stay there a long time.
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