MathWorks Associate Software Engineer reviews

Job descriptions are deceiving for EDG. EDG is actually just a technical support job with very little opportunity for engineering work. Technical support in EDG causes immense anxiety because of the non-stop phone calls with incredibly demanding clients. Very bad management in EDG. They lie and actively prevent employees from moving out of the program. The rest of the company uses members of EDG for free work without allowing EDG members to join engineering teams. EDG is a cesspool for new college graduates and will waste your time.

Low salary. Company moves at a slow pace. The new grad program ("CSDG" / "EDG") is disappointing. At a high level this is a project rotation program combined with tech support, with the intention of transferring out after 1-2 years with strong product/customer knowledge. There are many problems with this program: -The position is advertised as 50% support 50% project. In reality it becomes 50% support and 50% other, where other is project, meetings, support cases left from last week, etc -The support weeks are rigidly scheduled at 8:30-5:30 with a 1 hour lunch break. If you want time for your project (e.g. a 1 hour meeting with your project team) you need to find someone else to cover you on the phone lines while you are away -Within the first 6-8 months you learn most of what you will get out of support, but you have to keep spending >50% of your time on support until you transfer out. -There is a ton of training built around support, and very very little training built around development -Some of the support cases are interesting, but many are just very simple questions that can be answered by looking at documentation -Transferring to a development team still requires going through the whole interview process as if applying from out of the company.