Bitcoin and office politics ruined MSTR - werkgeversreview Senior Sales Engineer bij MicroStrategy

2,0
27 feb 2025
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MicroStrategy used to be a great place to work! For many years I would have given 5 stars. It really is a shame. Probably still some remnant of that within the organization, with those that are left. If they aren't too demoralized by years of peer layoffs.

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High Level: 1. Constant layoffs & re-orgs 2. Office politics 3. Struggling business, but focused on Bitcoin 4. Customer perception Details: 1. Many companies going through layoffs, sure... but when MSTR and Saylor are making news every day, stock price is going up, and there is money (billions) to buy bitcoin - it's not a good look to be laying off your foundational employees. 2. Strong office politics in play in Sales BU. New leadership in Sales means cleaning house and bringing in their own guys. If you're not part of the inner circle, or make one wrong move... you will not last. 3. Clearly business is not doing well if they are laying off employees for years, and all that matters is stock price going up from bitcoin. 4. Lots of tough questions from customers. They notice the layoffs, the declining business, and the bitcoin purchases. They wonder - what am I doing using MicroStrategy ?? What happened to the BI business ??

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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

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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

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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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