MathWorks

Cafeteria, not stressful. Individual office, very open approach towards code repositories and documentation.

• Low compensation -- they don't pay much, especially for experienced roles.
• Old stack -- desktop-first approach to building software, and almost everything is based on MATLAB, when the entire world is moving towards web applications and microservices. Concurrency is an afterthought. Your career as a software developer will end up nowhere.
• Old and broken infrastructure -- things that you depend on break all the time, the build is very slow, and it relies on decade-old tools that barely anyone still uses.
• Average WFH policy -- forces us to come in 3 days a week, saying it is "following industry leaders". MathWorks is known for its WLB, but I guess that can be ignored for now.
• Things move very slowly -- people talk about things in months and releases instead of days or weeks.
• Lack of ownership -- people don't take up responsibility when things go wrong.
• Do everything like a public company despite being a private company -- the company overhired and is now on a hiring freeze.

People come and stay at the company exactly because the company is unique in many ways.

If the company forces people to come in three days a week in Boston traffic, they will go to companies that offer better remote policies or go into the office three days but on much better pay.

There is no reason people want to stay if the downsides are the same but the pay is still low.

Management can bank on the tight job market for forcing this, but when the economy is better, see what happens.

Web is the future, and collaborative workflow is the future. If the company continues to stick to a desktop application, it will inevitably be thrown behind and forgotten someday.