MathWorks reviews

4.3

88% would recommend to a friend

(2,560 total reviews)
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Jack Little

94% approve of CEO

86% positive business outlook

MathWorks has an employee rating of 4.3 out of 5 stars, based on 2,560 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The MathWorks employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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3K reviews
3.0
Jun 18, 2019

Engineer

Recommend
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Pros

Great product, good work life balance, pretty decent salaries, all thanks to the managers returned from USA who brought some culture/ethics with them.

Cons

All the supporting departments to R&D are inefficient at the best. It seems like the Admin, IT, HR, Finance all are cutting the cost wherever it is possible to show so their efficiency to their bosses on the side of USA without conveying them how people hate the changes their acts bring in. Examples: Till date there is no arrangement of a decent pantry inside office. Only one vendor to distribute poor quality food for a pretty big price tag. Office infrastructure is getting worse every next day with very little focus on fixing it. All the drinks which employee likes and consume disappear from the cafeteria. Entire HR seems to be run by only one person with little to no employee engagement. I can bet HR has no idea what employees want, in my couple of years of time in office I have never seen HR engaging any of the employees. It is pathetic. Parental insurance is available but you pay 10K for it. Also insurance is only 3 lacks.

1.0
Aug 30, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

1. Solid market position. Not much competition around so company will be making moolah for some more time. 2. Good retirement paradise. Not much work to do.

Cons

1. Not for people who like growth as that happens at snail pace. 2. Bad review process, bad ways to calibrate market pay etc. 3. in Bangalore ofc people are very average. 4. Not many teams in Bangalore. 5. Low pay. 6. Slow and painful processes for everything. 7. Work in Bangalore ofc is mostly duhhh !!! 8. No WFH

4.0
Aug 19, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great office environment and facilities. Great culture and values. Good career growth opportunities if you are in the right area -- especially early on. Great place to start a career in professional software development. Self motivated individuals are highly rewarded. Lots of energy in some product areas. Steady/level-headed CEO. Lots of respect for bottom-up idea generation.

Cons

Aging customer base that pays most of the company's bills. As a result, upper management is very risk-averse and does not make bold moves that anticipate market changes or move the market in any meaningful way. Company is often playing catch-up. Company spends too much time giving an aging (albeit large) set of customers the exact thing that they ask for rather than what they really need. Different product areas sometimes seem to compete unnecessarily. The org-structure is too rigid and centered around particular products and roles rather than immediate business needs. This makes software development across multiple products unnecessarily challenging. Supporting roles, such as quality engineering, also belong to entirely different orgs with different sets of priorities which quite often do not align with the actual needs of a product at a particular point in its life-cycle. Middle/Upper management tends to intermittently micromanage product development. Career growth can plateau in some areas of the company leaving good people with no choice but to leave or face stagnation.

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