Great company for retirement, not so great for young minds needing to learn modern technologies - Senior Software Engineer MathWorks Employee Review

3.0
11 Apr 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

I've been working for MathWorks more than 4 years. Great people, stable products, and a healthy work life balance.

Cons

If you don't need to learn new programming languages, don't need to learn how to develop distributed systems, or don't need to learn modern Dev/Ops, this is a great company for retirement. Otherwise working for the company for a long time may leave you behind in the modern era, because the company's main products are supposed to be installed and run on a standalone machine. You don't get to work on modern technologies other companies such as Netflix, Uber, or Airbnb have been using. Read engineering blogs or watch tech talks to see if you are keeping up with latest technologies: if not, you'll soon find yourself outdated in software industry.

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5.0
9 Jun 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Great culture, amazing benefits, work on solving cool problems

Cons

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5.0
3 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The values are do the right thing and think long term - hard to get better than that. Work life balance is also quite good.

Cons

Software only, not much hardware. Limited ambition among coworkers.

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