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Good Tools, Low Pay

Software Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at MathWorks for 2 years
November 4, 2018
Natick, Massachusetts
4.0
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Pros

Personal offices, good benefits, and heavy investment in infrastructure and developer tools.

Cons

My biggest complaints are:

  • Annual salary boosts aren't that great. I meet new hires with less experience earning more than me.

  • The organizational maturity is really tough to measure here. It is most immediately evident in the products themselves: an automatic update model is finally being rolled out in 2018, and the company still seems to bend over backwards to release patches for specific $$ customers. Looking deeper, one notices that a proper issue tracking system (in this case, Jira) was only adopted in 2018, and the adoption feels...slipshod. My experience at my previous job with a much smaller and younger company felt significantly better organized. Of course, if you were to ask the project management teams, you would probably hear a completely different story.

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