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      4.3

      88% would recommend to a friend

      (2,558 total reviews)
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      Jack Little

      94% approve of CEO

      86% positive business outlook

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      4.6

      Work/Life balance

      4.5

      Culture & values

      4.4

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.9

      Senior management

      3.8

      Compensation and benefits

      3.8

      Career opportunities

      MathWorks has an employee rating of 4.3 out of 5 stars, based on 2,558 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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      3.0
      Oct 10, 2009

      Great opportunity for ramped up learning but make plans to leave soon

      Applications support engineer
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      Pros

      Great platform for fresh graduates to learn A decent amount of freedom to choose what you want to do

      Cons

      Downsides of this role, well after a year maybe your learning curve becomes stagnant and you want to move out of this role. Unfortunately, the organization is very conservative, so positions in your field of choice might not open up at all. You are literally wasting half of your time, doing Technical Support and talking to customers who mostly can't get anything done on their own. More than half of the management is non-technical so they have no freaking idea of what they are talking about most of the time. Just smile and take it. Huge disparity in pay scales for the same role. If you went to a branded school, you get a lot more than you deserve, performers are not rewarded aptly.

      3.0
      Oct 6, 2009

      A tale of two companies

      Software engineer
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      Pros

      It is the best of the companies to work for. It is the worst of the companies to work for. It all depends on where you end up in the company. MathWorks has two major product lines, one around MATLAB and one around Simulink. Both product lines are very successful and comprise the two halves of the revenue. The engineering organization is built into two halves around these product lines and evolved very differently from each other. MATLAB has been a historically "Learn and Apply" tool where the market is composed of very large number of small accounts. Simulink has been positioned as a serious engineering design tool which caters to large accounts in automotive, aerospace etc. I will compare and contrast these two halves and it turns out that, if you play your cards right, you can have a very nice life at MathWorks (just not a very successful one). The MATLAB half is in general, really fun to work for. There are not much market pressures as MATLAB users are mostly students and one-off engineers for whom MATLAB serves very adequately. The time lines for getting anything done in this organization are truly geological. People spend one year researching the requirements and the next year documenting the design and the next in various design meetings and so on. The management is organically grown, which means the hard-working years are well into their past and they are allowed to coast and concentrate on finer things in life. The relaxed, hands-off management means there is even less pressure on the foot soldiers. The incredible focus on process (specs, design reviews etc.) enables a large number of highly incompetent engineers to hide behind the process to get very little done. It is no accident that this organization is filled with native English speakers who are better at talking than in doing. There have been innovations on the MATLAB side, but they are rare and they happened in spite of the system rather than because of it. The 90-10 rule applies very strongly here. I do not have many good things to say about Simulink side, so let us move on to the cons.

      Cons

      Working on the Simulink side is brutal, mind-numbing and in general, career limiting as you will not be able to market these skills anywhere else. The management here is also organically grown and many of them do suffer from the same malady as their MATLAB counterparts, where they rest on the laurels earned in the 1990s. There are a few exceptions but they are just that, exceptions. The upper management in this organization puts a lot of pressure on getting things done as fast as possible. Large projects are never allowed to even take off for the fear that they will never finish. The extreme risk-averseness made this organization extremely incremental in its approach. There are teams that add no more than a few check-boxes to their product in a release cycle, but as long as they ship something, the management is happy. There is very little support or recognition for those who work on infrastructure and silently contribute to the products. Because of this, no talented engineer wants to work on infrastructure for fear of being marginalized. This meant that those who want to work on infrastructure full time are the lazy, talentless ones. This is causing this area to suffer a slow death which is certain to arrive in the next decade.

      4.0
      Oct 1, 2009

      Great benefits and salary, very slow career growth

      Senior software engineer
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      Pros

      Very relaxed and engaging atmosphere with great benefits and perks. It is a very stable company that is a leader in its market segment. It feels good to work on products that make a true difference in the world

      Cons

      Becoming very process driven, which invariably slows down the pace of work and can be very frustrating at times. The pace of career development is atrociously slow.

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