MathWorks

• This is a good place to work if this is your first job out of college (but do not get stuck here!).
• The company has a good process to ramp up new hires.
• Some of the in-house training opportunities are very good.
• It is easy to have a good work/life balance in most teams.
• Everybody in development gets nice private offices.
• If you pay attention, you will learn software engineering working here.
• The company purchases books for everyone.
• Work/life balance can be very good.
• Facilities are top-notch.

Pay scale is 10% to 30% below industry average.

Bonus structure is not transparent, below industry average, and rigged to favor upper management positions.

The company hires overqualified people for most positions.

It is hard to develop transferable skills in most positions.

Company is very process-heavy.

Previous work experience, education, or training is not valued; all that matters is MathWorks tenure.

Merit-based career advancement is slow to none.

Lots of pushback and passive aggressiveness from company old-timers.

The core values taught during orientation are only followed by individual contributors; management follows them or not depending on the circumstances.

Everything gets reinvented in-house many times over.

Too much process: plan on spending about half of your time in meetings.

No telecommuting allowed.

Family members are not welcome at many of the company party events; what company organizes parties with dancing and alcohol but does not allow you to bring your significant other?

Let new blood rise to middle and higher management. Listen to the new people you bring in. Make bonuses substantial, transparent, and based on merit, not on politics. Hold upper management to the same core values you ask individual contributors to follow.