MathWorks Software Developer reviews

Location can be kind of tricky, depending on where you are commuting from. In parts of the product, its age is starting to show. When I was there Simulink and MATLAB were launched as the same process. Depending on the component you work on, enormous amounts of code made building and testing cumbersome. Their continuous integration/source control management system is a set of perl scripts layered on top of CVS and is really arcane. (They were moving to Perforce when I was there.) There are multiple sets of tools for managing code submissions, developed by different teams. To be fair, they are aware of these technical problems and were actively working to address them and achieve better componentization of the source code. But it seemed at the time like a huge mountain to climb. When I was there, their policy about working from home was pretty strict (only three days per year?).

For people from Boston the commute could be challenging. Also those in favor of "fast pace", "make quick decisions", "lean", "mean" and whatever latest buzzwords are may not find it here. But this may not be a con after all - they know what kind of business they are in.