Nice product, crazy process - Software Engineering MathWorks Employee Review

2.0
Apr 3, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

1. The company makes a well known widely used product. 2. The offices in Natick are really nice, with nice cafeteria and gym on-site. 3. Good benefits, such as 6/6 401k match.

Cons

1. Ridiculous management: the process is so loaded down and wastes obscene numbers of engineer-hours in forms. There are two entirely separate tracking systems that have to be filed for every new feature. 2. Silly performance review process that uses bad tools--it takes forever to fill out the badly designed self-review form and no-one looks at it anyway. 3. Salaries 20-30 percent lower than industry average.

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