MathWorks reviews

The company is losing some of its creative edge and becoming more and more process oriented. No sense of urgency with respect to delivering features - "it gets done when it gets done" attitude.

I find that of all the things the MathWorks values, creativity and hard work are not always among them. I'm willing to admit that this might be department or even manager specific, but I have certainly seen my share of people promoted to high profile positions when their level of work had been demonstrably low and their achievements had, at best, been efforts to make themselves look effective. If you work here, it seems you are better off shirking your actual duties and instead working to get your name out there. Seriously, no one seems to care if you do that instead of your job. People can and do get away with doing nothing all day long. With respect to creativity, management pays lip service to it, but anyone trying to innovate is met with some pretty stiff resistance. People here like things the way they are. Unless you happen to land in a pretty lucky position, this job can be a resume killer. The MathWorks suffers pretty badly from NIH Syndrome and so nothing you work on even exists in the outside world. If you are working ON designing all these in-house tools, it's great experience. If you are working WITH them, you are learning a skill that is useless anywhere else you go. It's worth watching out for if you work here.