Ignore the laudatory reviews - Software Engineer MathWorks Employee Review

1.0
Sep 30, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The company is well-funded. When it's not a plague year you get a little office with a door to yourself.

Cons

N.B.: HR encourages employees to write GlassDoor reviews soon after they join, before they realize they've been trapped. Ignore the positive reviews and read the moderate-to-negative ones. In my experience: - The culture is corporate, cut-throat, and pretentious (e.g. coworkers are "colleagues") - High pressure, low pay - Lots of code (20 million+ LOC), very little documentation - High micromanagement, low autonomy - Managers will scold you for talking with your teammates about anything not related to your immediate task - Managers treat your estimates as commitments - It is improper to suggest new ideas unless you've been there several years - You'll leave with few transferrable skills because all of their tools are custom-made - Despite claims to diversity, the workforce is largely Indian

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5.0
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CEO approval
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Pros

Great worlk life balance and culture

Cons

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4.0
Jul 23, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Nice small team, personal office, breakfast and lunch. Some excellent engineers are really helpful and love to share and teach. Best work-life balance for most teams.

Cons

Office politics since the reorganization, that is really not good for working. Even though there are still some excellent senior and principal engineers who are really helpful, something that happened is distract the work and betrayed their values.

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