MathWorks reviews

Extremely bad management. The middle managers are the most inept group of people you could have the misfortune to meet. Engineers who can't write code and can't ever get a project finished are the ones promoted. The internal processes, such as the build system, are a buggy nightmare. The templates for writing internal documents, including performance reviews and software specs were all designed by people who have no idea of how document templates work. The performance review cycle is ridiculously elaborate and rewards inaction and ineptness.

Smacks of bureaucracy with processes, middle managers etc.. Lack of career growth opportunities or even clear directions/paths is just mind boggling. There is absolutely no clarity in how to go from one level to another. Promotions are non-existent. Constantly understaffed because of which projects go under resourced, or don't get completed. Contributing factor I think is that some of the good people leave because of median to less than median pay, lack of growth opps. Information sharing between groups is not efficient even for a fairly small company. But in its defense it is probably a function of rapid growth it has seen over past few years. Not nimble enough - MathWorks doesn't have serious competition and that is why it has survived for so long. Lack of competition could just be a function of the diverse portfolio of products and industries in which it operates. MathWorks is increasingly looking Microsoft of technical computing world minus the evilness part.