MicroStrategy reviews

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.

I had no idea that it was possible to micromanage people as vehemently as managers do at MicroStrategy. MicroStrategy has the most inefficient reporting structure imaginable. All decisions are made by the CEO or President. Everyone else in the company (including the CXOs) runs around like chickens with their heads cut off trying to anticipate what is in the CEO’s mind. Everyone’s anxiety level is at an 11 at all times. The senior leaders take their stress out on those below them and unscrupulously throw their subordinates under the bus to save their own behinds. I have sat in meeting after meeting watching VPs and CXOs blame others for their mistakes to save their own jobs and then later lie to their subordinates about it. It is disgusting, but everyone knows it happens all the time and have just accepted it is part of the job. As a result, 90% of your job is writing CYA documentation. But it is really useless to do so. If something goes wrong in the CEOs’ eyes (whether it is a mistake or not) , the executive team will find a scapegoat—they always do no matter how much you document things. People don’t care about each other here. Everyone is miserable. Everyone! Those who don’t admit their misery are phonies and liars. Don’t trust them. They are the ones talking bad about you to executives behind your back to try to make themselves look better. If you take a job here, it must be because you are desperate. Word to the wise -- if you start working here, take the paycheck but don’t stop your job search.