Just another soulless company. Take your talent elsewhere - Senior Software Engineer MathWorks Employee Review

3.0
27 Sept 2023
Recommend
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Pros

cafeteria, not stressful, individual office, very open approach towards code repositories and documentation

Cons

* Low compensation -- they don't pay much, especially for experienced roles * Old stack -- desktop-first approach to building software, and almost everything is based on MATLAB, when the entire world is moving towards web application and microservices. Concurrency is an afterthought. Your career as a software developer will end up nowhere * Old and broken infrastructure -- things that you depend on break all the time, build is very slow, relies on decade-old tools that barely anyone still uses * Average WFH policy -- forces us to come in 3 days a week, saying it is "following industry leaders". MathWorks is known for its WLB but I guess that can be ignored for now. * Things move very slowly -- people talk about things in months and releases instead of days or weeks * Lack of ownership -- people don't take up responsibility when things go wrong * Do everything like a public company despite being a private company -- the company overhired and is now on a hiring freeze.

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5.0
9 June 2026
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Pros

Great culture, amazing benefits, work on solving cool problems

Cons

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4.0
8 June 2026
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Pros

great work life balance and awesome atmosphere

Cons

a bit slow if you want impact

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