MathWorks reviews

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

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 Information Technology industry (3.7 stars).

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3.0
Feb 8, 2024
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Pros

Good company culture overall, employees are treated well, respectable CEO, (mostly) very nice people, good office environment at HQ. (Less so in other offices.) A good place to work overall, especially if you’re an engineer, but I’d be wary of other roles.

Cons

1.) MW is an engineering-led company. That may sound great to an engineer but it does have its downsides. Old school management styles, deep hierarchies, fairly rigid, not always competent managers who have a hard time understanding non-technical roles. I got the impression most managers are good, but I had a terrible experience with my mine. 2.) Pay is adequate but not great; you don’t go there for the money, and you won’t be buying anything in a major city. 3.) Office location and in-office requirements: You are required to be onsite 2 days/week. That’s not terrible, and I do understand their rationale, but the facilities are outside of major areas, so you have to drive. At HQ in Natick, MA: commutes in metro Boston suck unless you live close (exurbs of Boston), and neither campus is particularly convenient via transit. (There are shuttles to/from a commuter rail station, but that adds a ton of commute time unless you happen to live along that rail line.) There were days when I found myself going into the office not because it made any sense or added any value, but simply because that is company policy.

2.0
Aug 28, 2023
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Pros

Potential to work on interesting problems Potential for decent work-life balance

Cons

Company is frequently making policy changes because "others are doing it" and not with any legitimate justifications. Vocal disagreements and asking for data-driven decisions are ignored. There also has been a much stronger push towards making and rejecting decisions based purely on how much money it will make, and not on how much we could be helping our customers.

1.0
Mar 5, 2014

Was great until sr. mgmt 'flipped the bit'

Anonymous employee
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Pros

smart co-workers healthy business focus on improved quality will pay dividends. product helps the world

Cons

lengthy and onerous yearly review process did not match stated core values no "work from home" technology is falling behind due to mountain of legacy 'spaghetti code' personnel changes can seem puzzling, at best. Sometimes capricious; sometimes punitive.

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