OK for a first job. Get your title and experience and be prepared to leave soon. - Anonymous employee MicroStrategy Employee Review

2.0
6 May 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Stable, consistent salary. Agreeable people to work with. The job is mostly easy. Moving internally between departments or specialties is not too difficult, provided you have the expertise/training. The only thing I can see truly positive about them is that they did pay reliably, and offer a fair benefits package.

Cons

Guaranteed overtime during the end of any development cycle for major OR minor releases. Mostly because of poor planning by management, and over-promising by marketing. Heavy political atmosphere with emphasis on "towing the company line" rather than getting the job done. Even internally!! Lots of off-shore hiring and foreign hiring, few American workers employed - most are Indian, Chinese, or Mexican. I have nothing against cultural diversity, but these are literally people from another country that have been relocated for their job with a work visa. In other words, they do not employ very many *Americans* (except maybe in HR). I was one of 3 Americans on my entire floor of over 300 people. Furthermore, they outsource testing and development jobs heavily to India, China, and Russia because it saves money. They close other offices (except HQ) in the U.S. or anywhere around the world if they fail to meet the cost-benefit ratio. This is a highly profit-driven public-traded company that cares way more about their bottom line than satisfying their customers or employees. Developers may easily work 50-60 hours a week as a normal work week. During crunch time, working 80 hours per week is not unheard of, and it ends when the managers say it ends. The pay does not increase with overtime as workers are salaried, they are simply given some extra comp days - but that is not worth the frustration and stress involved in this entire process. Most developers look like they have been there forever and the light has gone out of their eyes. Everyone who works there only cares about a paycheck; they accept the status quo, and most don't venture beyond their cubicles or their manager's office. The company culture is anti-new-ideas (although they say to your face that they have an open-door policy, you are just open to talk, not to be listened to unless you have worked there for 10 years). Heavily political. Oh, and what the CEO says is GOD as far as anyone is concerned. They will always tell you "Well, he writes out paychecks, so...."

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Cons

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3.0
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Pros

You will learn ALOT here and if you can stomach the culture you can get promoted quickly or move teams with little friction. Above market rate benefits that start Day 1 Generally speaking good camaraderie amongst the worker ranks I’ve held multiple roles and have appreciated the opportunities to travel internationally which was life changing The product has a little bit of a learning curve but it genuinely is something special once it’s up and running I felt that towards the end of my tenure my pay was exemplary although I really had to earn it

Cons

Wowwwww where to begin… Well it’s a top down organisation but also a market laggard. Given our position relative to our competitors this regime of leadership is responsible for missing the moment in Cloud, BI and AI. Middle management and upper management alike don’t have a clue and it’s definitely a soap opera of leadership and empire or cult building. Not a great feeling of purpose when everything you do internally as well as with customers is overshadowed by Bitcoin. Dwindling customer base. We’re really only making money by replacing ironically technologies older than us (Cognos,BOBJ) or moving existing customers to our managed cloud The community is totally dead especially internationally. Minimal on the ground experts at strategy and a very loose and underfunded partner program Product conceptually is great but struggles to differentiate from hyperscalers and modern cloud data platforms on value. Leadership can definitely get a little preachy touting merits or metrics that are pretty vain in the big picture Specifically in the last 3 years gaslighting has been the norm for management. Everything here feels performative and doing your best to do your work without upstaging or upsetting your manager. The RSU distribution definitely feels like serfdom. The employees at the bottom get a single digit or if you’re a heretic you get double digit number of RSUs, but it definitely does not seem fair that the benefits of the Bitcoin strategy rolled to the top, at least when the asset is up

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