Working on the Simulink side is brutal, mind-numbing and in general, career limiting as you will not be able to market these skills anywhere else. The management here is also organically grown and many of them do suffer from the same malady as their MATLAB counterparts, where they rest on the laurels earned in the 1990s. There are a few exceptions but they are just that, exceptions.
The upper management in this organization puts a lot of pressure on getting things done as fast as possible. Large projects are never allowed to even take off for the fear that they will never finish. The extreme risk-averseness made this organization extremely incremental in its approach. There are teams that add no more than a few check-boxes to their product in a release cycle, but as long as they ship something, the management is happy.
There is very little support or recognition for those who work on infrastructure and silently contribute to the products. Because of this, no talented engineer wants to work on infrastructure for fear of being marginalized. This meant that those who want to work on infrastructure full time are the lazy, talentless ones. This is causing this area to suffer a slow death which is certain to arrive in the next decade.
