MathWorks

• Great company with decent pay and benefits, considering the bonus program.
• Good work-life balance. You can put in extra work, but it's really up to you. This is true at least in my department. The story seems different in development.
• Good company culture. People are mostly down-to-earth and friendly, with the exception of some senior folks who carry a bit of "inner circle" hubris.
• Another culture thing: You can always find help.

• Slow-moving product that is losing traction to open-source and programming becoming more ubiquitous in science and engineering fields.

• Hiring mentality that everyone is replaceable, which leads to lower salaries for tech and a critical mass of mediocre hires who are largely not independent and motivated.

• Development mentality to use as little resources as possible to deliver a minimum viable product that checks a box. For example, "yes, we do deep learning. Here's a solution".

• Marketing departments specifically lacking in "doers". People constantly looking to defend old-school standpoints and justify slow development action to avoid doing any significant work.

• The praise I have received from management has always been on small, one-off projects unrelated to my main job, rather than what I consider to be my most significant and rewarding contributions.

• Location is in the suburbs, a little ways out of the city.

Especially for core MATLAB and Simulink, listen to the field engineers and downstream teams. There are lots of fundamental blocking issues that could make the overall product better.

Invest more proactively in hiring, and not just hiring someone to fill a seat.

Be more critical about retaining and rewarding people that do good work rather than those who are easy to manipulate and along for the ride towards a slow but stable career.