MathWorks

There are a lot of smart people and good software.

If you drink the Kool-Aid and buy into the contract, then it is probably a nice place to work. If you don't, don't even consider this company.

Glacial pace of development. Very little influence due to organization structure. Macintosh platform all but ignored, despite management statements to the contrary. Lots of lip service to core values; not much in practice. If you want to be creative, MathWorks is not the place to be.

Let the incredible engineers MathWorks hires have creative freedom. Though the charts have lots of years of up-and-to-the-right, that doesn't mean that you are creating the best software. Focus on the customer. Short of this, someone is likely to put a pretty face on a competing Open Source software (Octave for example) and take a giant bite out of your revenues.