MathWorks reviews

Rigid processes, and clinging to long-held beliefs, like you can stick with a rigid software license model and still compete with open source, onerous approvals that prevent innovations and slow down progress, still using a rigid waterfall development process with 2 releases per year and no ability to change plans with less than a year delay. Managers who just "talk the talk" of supporting you, but don't walk the walk, and don't hesitate to shoot down your own ideas while dinging you on not making enough impact. Inability to move anything quickly - your customers wait at least 1.5 years to see gaps closed or new features to respond to their requests or market trends, new content typically takes 6 months to be developed, revised, approved and pushed out, etc etc

Core values applied on a "rules for thee, not for me" basis by upper management. Despite proclaiming a "rational workplace" the rank and file were never given any reasoning for why they're required to work in the office while plenty of senior leaders have decided they themselves get to work fully remotely. Career progression is slow, based largely on tenure rather than performance. Pay could be better. Rent is rising faster than compensation in Massachusetts. Lots of teams stuck on older tech because "that's how it has always been done, it's too hard to change things now"