Is MathWorks a good company to work for?

MathWorks has an overall rating of 4.3 out of 5, based on over 3,166 reviews left anonymously by employees. This rating has been stable over the past 12 months. 89% of employees would recommend working at MathWorks to a friend and 87% have a positive outlook for the business. The best reviews about MathWorks have been left by employees working as EDG , Software Engineer Intern and EDG Engineer .

Does MathWorks pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, MathWorks employees rate their compensation and benefits as 3.8 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at MathWorks. This rating has decreased by 1% over the last 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at MathWorks?

89% of MathWorks employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated MathWorks 4.6 out of 5 for work life balance, 4.5 for culture and values and 3.7 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at MathWorks?

Software Engineer (314) , Senior Software Engineer (166) , Quality Engineer (93) , Applications Support Engineer (69) , Intern (63) , Engineering Development Group (EDG) (59) , EDG Intern (51) , EDG (44) , EDG Engineer (38) , Software Developer (38) , Manager (35) , Engineer (33) , Principal Software Engineer (32) , Applications Engineer (31) , Software Engineer(Internship) (31)

What are the pros of working at MathWorks according to real employee reviews?

"Work life balance is good and there are no late night calls unlike other companies and this could be a team specific information." ((in 451 reviews)); "Team and people are great" ((in 296 reviews)); "Good Benefits and perks." ((in 147 reviews)); "Good work culture and people" ((in 127 reviews)); "Supportive environment with great colleagues." ((in 118 reviews))

What are the cons of working at MathWorks according to real employee reviews?

"Low pay (we shouldn't have to rely on a stakeholder bonus to get a halfway decent salary)" ((in 120 reviews)); "low salary and old technology" ((in 109 reviews)); "there is no option to work from home (allowed a maximum of 3 days a year)." ((in 91 reviews)); "Most managers have been with the company for 15+ years and there is an emphasis on the "slow and steady" mantra." ((in 70 reviews)); "Another typical pitfall for tech companies from the 80s is that there is no career growth outside the management track." ((in 42 reviews))

What are employees saying about MathWorks layoffs in 2026?

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What are the top reviewed MathWorks locations?

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MathWorks reviews

4.3

89% would recommend to a friend

(575 total reviews)

Jack Little

94% approve of CEO

87% positive business outlook

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4.6

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4.5

Culture & values

4.4

Diversity & inclusion

3.9

Senior management

3.8

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3.7

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3.0

Oct 9, 2013

High expectations, underwhelming results

Revenue accounting and controls

Recommend

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Pros

-Consistently a leader in its class -Financially healthy -Great work/life balance -Fun parties -Young company

Cons

-Atrocious pay compared to regional market -Zero and I mean zero transparency -If you're not an engineer or developer, you're a commodity -Little to no advancement potential (salary or responsibility) for "S level" (service) positions - Revenue Accounting and Controls, Customer Service, Sales Support (Account Management) -Micromanagement in the extreme (President/CEO approving remote work requests and pricing discounts) -Account Management is sales support, plain and simple. -Customer Service is traditional CS, and Revenue Accounting and Controls is simply a glorified data entry and AR collections position. If you have a finance degree, and accounting degree, or an MBA you should *absolutely* not be spending your time in such a position. The people are great but you are wasting your time and valuable years of your early professional career. I understand people joining between 2007 and 2011 due to the economy but at this point, you're hurting your career advancement and severely handicapping your career advancement potential.

4.0

Sep 10, 2013

A Place to Spend a Successful Career

Anonymous employee

Recommend

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Pros

Balanced work environment with plenty of very capable people who are smart and passionate about MathWorks products and services. Campus gets better every year. For those who earn the right, there is plenty of limited autonomy. There are many other places to work, but few are as stable or secure. Wonderful suite of benefits and bonuses.

Cons

Insanely complex and painful review process that wastes enormous amounts of time that unfortunately has a minimal return on investment. There are significant limits on management's decision making authority as almost everything involves over-engineered processes and approvals.

5.0

Sep 4, 2013

Has an outstanding software processes that makes it easy to be at zero bugs!

Senior software engineer

Recommend

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Pros

Great pay for the Boston area. Great software processes that lends itself to very high quality. Amazing in-house build system that automatically builds your code across many different platforms. Outstanding release management system and team. Excellent automated test framework that distributes testing across the company servers. Super-star engineers throughout the company. Great culture. Good chance of getting your own office. Insanely amazing benefits, including 100% up to 6% 401k match! Great bonus program. Good vacations.

Cons

Private company, so no stocks. Health insurance co-pay could be lower. Extremely limited tele-commuting policy. Can feel bureaucratic at times. Traditionally hired only engineers and only recently started hiring computer science grads, which means that some of the older code is not coded up as well as it could have.

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