Unfortunate change to a toxic culture - Anonymous employee Mathematica Employee Review

1.0
6 Aug 2024
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Many colleagues are eager to give staff valuable opportunities and genuinely care about your career growth and well-being.

Cons

Mathematica used to be a great place to work until it turned into a toxic, mismanaged organization that cares more about profitability than the mental health and well-being of their employees. In the last few months, employees have had to fear their job security due to poor management and unsupportive leadership. Some details on this include: giving the CEO more than a half million dollar bonus and firing the staff member who revealed this by mistake, while at the same time management coerced multiple employees, many with only 3 days notice, to have their salaries cut in half by going part time because they didn’t have enough billable work and money to keep them employed full-time. Management never showed any sign of caring or responsibility for how the situation was handled and constantly tried to pretend it wasn’t happening and called the situation “a rumor”. The CEO acted as if he was going to address it at the shareholders meeting but then just went off on a tangent about “love and magic” and how employees chose to go part time for the greater good of the company, which was not a fact whatsoever. Additionally, the group of people who were made part time were referred to as “the hit list” by other colleagues. Imagine working at an organization where employees are put in such a toxic situation that colleagues are fearful they will be added to that list?

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Great colleagues, 401k match, and interesting work

Cons

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1.0
29 May 2026
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Pros

There are times when you are on a project and the Project Director is a good person, a good leader, and a good colleague who has somehow successfully managed to avoid adopting the toxic practices/behaviors reinforced by "Leadership." The flexibility to work remotely and flex hours is really world class.

Cons

Generally, I have not considered the environment to be toxic or the work culture to be toxic. Before this year, the recent re-org, and the RIFs, I would have said that there are toxic individuals or toxic clients, but not a toxic organizational culture. At halfway through 2026, it's impossible to maintain that perspective. Every single person I interact with, regardless of unit or job scope, across the entire global and US-facing matrix, are on the job market. The exceptions are those individuals in "Leadership," the ones creating the toxicity who have risen up because the best have left. In this environment when jobs are scarce, if you receive an offer to work here, negotiate to the absolute maximum value of the salary band then bide your time until the labor market loosens up.

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