MathWorks Senior Software Developer reviews

No work from home policy Becoming increasingly process-intensive over past few years. Conflicting demands on getting new flashy features out the door versus updating legacy features that are in serious need of refactoring/redesign -- the latter usually ends up being sacrificed for the former. Lower salaries compared to similar tech companies.

1. Promotions are based on years of experience, or how many years since you got your bachelor's degree. For technical positions, new hires with a master's degree and no work experience generally enter as "Level 2". After 4-6 years of decent work, you are promoted to "Level 3" (Senior). After that promotion, you'll have to wait 10-15 years for your next promotion to "Level 4" (Principal). For many people, they get one promotion to "Level 3" (Senior) and that's it! 2. No work-life balance if you work on products in the CDA area. This covers all the products that require Simulink. Work with product teams in the LTC area (MATLAB and toolbox products) if you want work-life balance. 3. No work from home at all. (But some managers don't care when you work from home, so enforcement is uneven.) 4. Each year, your performance rating is decided well before you start writing the self-review. So nothing that you write in the self-review has any effect on your rating. What you write is to justify the rating that was given to you.