Pros: Work with smart people. Challenging, exciting work that varies day to day. Many opportunities to get "training". You do not have to decide on a career until after you work here for a while, so there is flexibility. Career opportunities, though not as many as advertised during the hiring process, they are still there.

Cons: Management for the "Engineering Development Group" should not be managing a development group. They are basically technical support managers, and generally good at that, but do not have any clear mandate to focus at all on the non-support side of this group. This is clear as they continually make decisions that sacrifice engineers' long-term career development at MathWorks for short-term technical support goals. The work culture of the Engineering Development Group is not in line with the principles and values of the rest of the company. The dual demand for our time, coupled with homework assignments (yes, there is homework in EDG), routinely makes working after work hours or on the weekends necessary. The common complaint for this position is simply that the 50/50 support/project time split, which is repeated all throughout the hiring process and at career fairs, is simply not true. 70/30 is more accurate.

Pros: 1. Some part of the outside world thinks you are working on a well-known product. 2. If you are interested specifically in using MATLAB/Simulink to solve MATH/Engineering problems, you might enjoy the job. 3. Good work-life balance. You are working based on a fixed schedule; there is no flexibility, but also no overtime. 4. There are many smart and nice people working here. 5. Part of the benefits is good, e.g., 401K match, unlimited sick days, and there are some nice small perks.

Cons: The cons part is only for EDG, and more specifically it is for the experience of computer science people in EDG. 1. MathWorks’ pay to ASE role might not be that bad compared to many mid to small-size companies, but it is still much lower than most large software companies. 2. If your career goal is to do software development, don’t have very high expectations for the EDG program, because it is mainly a technical support role. EDG is part of the technical support department, and your technical support job always has higher priority than all of your other tasks in EDG. Most managers will purposely avoid this fact when they talk to you before you join. 3. MathWorks is an extremely procedural company, so for anything you do, there will be some step-by-step documentation, which is good for many people. However, for some reason, they never make the procedure of transferring out of EDG to a development role clear. The time you spend at EDG actually depends on the number of opening positions in other parts of the company, and they do over-hire sometimes. When this happens, again, your manager will avoid the fact and tell you to not focus on whether there are any open positions, but to focus on improving yourself so an opportunity will come to you. 4. The performance review process is very unclear and inconsistent. The performance rating is from 1 to 6 points, and I have seen someone get praised by his manager and promised a raise, while someone from the same team with a rating just 0.5 lower got warned by the same manager that his career is at risk. 5. Most managers are not from the appropriate technical background, so do not expect them to help you much from the technical perspective. The management is highly technical support oriented, and if you say you have a computer science degree and are very good at software development, your skills will not be much appreciated here. 6. The expected amount of bonus for new hires listed on the hiring material that HR gave to me was way higher than the bonus I actually received, and since all new hires get the same amount of bonus regardless of performance, the information from HR was just not true. 7. Some actions from management are questionable in terms of work ethics. Managers use the threat of not filing working visa applications to push engineers.

Pros: Great work/life balance, great perks, care for employees, nice workplace, supportive colleagues.

Cons: Slow pace, not good for aspiring young people.