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.

I noticed something strange going on at Mathematica of the last few years. Executive leadership really blundered on opportunities to be transparent and actually listen to the feedback of its employees (it is employee owned after all, but they seem to have forgotten that). I think the company is desperate for new leadership, in need of leaders that actually inspire and lead by example with empathy toward others. Echoing one of the comments below, after leadership dropped the ball on communications regarding new rules for our billable targets, there was a leak of some execs’ bonuses on their internal social media site. Their response was to fire the individuals involved, even those involved by accident—they then held an all staff meeting where the incident was completely ignored and they talked about “love” and “magic” as if that was supposed to fix things. Everyone else’s bonuses and salaries (those not in the c suite) are easily accessible in the company because of how we were staffed and budgeted, so what are they hiding? Maybe they’re embarrassed because they are so self focused and entitled. The CEO is pretty invisible so one might question how warranted his bonus/salary really is. But hey, they are all buddies and they make the rules, so as long as the stock price is going up (aka their retirement packages), who cares about the lack of investment in the rest of the employees. Many key people have been leaving left and right, many because of lack of promotions and professional development due to the backup of execs coasting into retirement. It also doesn’t really matter how much new work you can bring to the company or time you spend managing difficult clients or the time you spend on proposals, you’re just seen as unbillable. I left because I didn’t see a path forward and got a better offer elsewhere. Maybe I’ll come back some day but not with their current leadership.