Good to start building your career
Pros
- Great work/life balance. Schedules are very flexible and management is very open to these kind of concerns - You work with some amazingly bright fellows. - You can work at multiple projects at the same time using different technologies. Rotation is enough to keep things interesting - Management is in general very friendly and open to new proposals and to give your ideas a shot - Career plans are generally good, at least in the Software Engineering area
Cons
- Poor compensation/perks available. In general, MicroStrategy offers way less (at least 10%) than what other comparable tech companies offer in the area. Perks are almost non-existent (the only good one we have is a gym at the HQ). Bonuses are also very small. Talented people usually jumps ship after a couple of years for obvious reasons. - Some managers are very good, but others are very inefficient and disorganized, causing a mess in projects. Also, we're normally short-staffed in terms of QA, UI and Program Management personnel, so we as developers end up doing tasks we shouldn't. - A lot of immigrants. Not a bad thing per se. The problem is many barely speak/write English and this makes communication though at moments. - Many tasks are performed at the China center. This is a problem as many of your QA engineers will be located at the other side of the world and you have no chance to talk to them. - I'm not a big fan of the board and president. They don't seem to be very involved with personnel and MicroStrategy has grown so big that bureaucratic hurdles appear constantly as the company tries to reshift to accommodate the strategies they pick.
