MathWorks

The company gives a lot of nice perks: free breakfast and cookies, annual weekend outings, and random celebration events.

The company moves so slowly, letting process get in the way of progress and losing ground to open source. They dominate a few industries but try to cover too much ground with too few resources.

Company has a very top-down approach, which slows things down further and prevents any innovation. Even the office chairs need owner approval. Company has almost 5,000 people, and only one makes any decisions; simply inefficient.

No career growth to be had unless you are a fresh grad.

Many people seem to be here for the ease of life. If you want to challenge yourself and grow, look elsewhere. If you want to simply cruise mode your career and are willing to sacrifice growth, this is the place for you.