Dismal - Designer MicroStrategy Employee Review

1.0
30 Sept 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Salary is competitive, gym is nice

Cons

Do yourself a favor and rent 'Snowpiercer' before working here, it's a lot like that. Management is sitting up in a ivory tower on the 14th floor. Regular employees do not have access and are crammed on top of each other everywhere else in the building while professional chefs serve the executives lunch in their spacious offices. Does this sound like modern technology company? Meanwhile the CEO is micromanaging design decisions that are well beyond his grasp. Go ahead, download Usher, see if it makes any sense to you. No? Well thank Michael Saylor for that, he designed it. Do you really want to work at a place where you will have 0 impact on the design because ultimately the CEO is driving everything? Speaking of which, he's been in a 10 year coma partying and touring the world on his yachts, has now arisen from his slumber and decided that his ailing company badly needs his attention. Board members have repeatedly called for his resignation. In an effort to appease them, he's aggressively firing anyone who looks him in the eye the wrong way. I would not assume that your position is going to last for any period of time if you take a job here

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5.0
30 July 2025
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Pros

Good pay and benefit. Great support for immigration and legal. Great work life balance. Supportive and talented co-workers

Cons

No management level issues at least in my team.

3.0
14 June 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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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