Mathematica reviews

- poor compensation and pto. We get routine emails to donate PTO for colleagues that have emergencies (how about we make an exception for someone in an emergency?) - fear based motivation from management - management is old and only there because they've been at the company for a long time. Not aware of what's needed technologically to push the company forward - hush hush culture - very hierarchical structure - no professional development for junior analysts. I asked to get on a certain type of project for over 1 year. - billing model should be changed - super slow promotions overall: you can tell the company is run by people who have been there a long time. There's little focus on the benefits of new hires and every decision from management is to maximize their retirement package that's coming soon. Motivation should come from a place of excitement and not fear of losing hours or making a mistake.

There is a significant culture of overwork at Mathematica, and the pay is not commensurate. Associates are pressured to take on increasingly high levels of responsibility (serving, for example, as Project Managers for portfolios cumulatively worth tens-hundreds of millions of dollars), but they are only paid $55k-65k. Unpaid overtime is normalized. Associates, who are hourly non-exempt, regularly work 50+ hours/week but, like everyone else, are basically required to document only 40 hours on their timesheets. As another reviewer put it, there is a culture of working more hours than are billed to the company's clients. Many staff are spread thin between their projects, some working on 6+ at a time and at >100% LOEs, and that exhaustion sometimes leads to corner-cutting on projects.