Toxic culture but some people are great - werkgeversreview Software Engineer bij MicroStrategy

2,0
22 nov 2019
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MSTR has many talented and kind people to work with. The facility is pretty good with gym and lounge. Pay was decent. If you are with good manager, you can learn a lot. If you are fresh out of college, it might be a good starting point.

Minpunten

Oh boy, The cons.. As other reviewer says, it is the 'old boys club'. All middle managers are 'yes man', and the order is always top-to-bottom. They pretend they "listen", but once you get a bad manager you are out. Beware that there is no 2 way communication - which is very sad since if they listen to what majority people think and reflect on their planning it might be beneficial. Also I know people who still work there always prepare for a job interview since you never know when they are going to let you go without any notice and I mean even your manager won't know that you are gone. In general I noticed that the culture was very toxic - people have to be in "the same line" as your manager or higher up so they can watch your back kind of thing. God forbid you actually put in honest 8 hour hard work with result and leave to have a life outside of the company. People around there always complaint about working too much and some decisions are stupid - but again they can't do anything about it but stay. If you don't stay late, then you might as well not working.

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5,0
30 jul 2025
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Good pay and benefit. Great support for immigration and legal. Great work life balance. Supportive and talented co-workers

Minpunten

No management level issues at least in my team.

3,0
14 jun 2026
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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

Minpunten

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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