Vantaggi
The best part about MicroStrategy is the people, not the management, but the people. I have worked with many people in Sales, Finance, Legal, Compensation, and Operations and 95% of them are very intelligent and see the problems at hand. Many of these people I would gladly work with again. This has also been a huge resume builder for me. I have been here a little over two years and because of the constant under staffing in internal facing non-tech roles, even before the layoffs, I have been able to have assignments that would normally go to someone with at least 3 more years of experience. If you are looking for more responsibility at lower levels. You must carve your own path though.
Svantaggi
TLDR: CEO does not understand internal needs, bleeding out the company through loss of individuals, any new senior management is silenced or forced out, CEO involved in to much minutia (example multiple revamp of system wide reporting), outside of tech no room for advancement. Unfortunately all the companies ills fall to one person: Michael Saylor. After the Apex Capital letter Saylor has come back in full force. This has been a nightmare for the rest of us. The man might now software but he does not understand people. He believes that we are all interchangeable cogs and that we do not need training in order to do another person's job. We have had several Senior Executives who have come in that have made me in operations excited to see change. They have either been fired for telling Saylor no, have quit because of the madness, or have been put in a corner where they can just spin their wheels. Since Saylor has come back our internal processes have had to change on a weekly basis. Our system wide reporting have been revamped by him personally several times in 2 months. A CEO should not be worrying about this level of minutia. Never thought I would say it but please send him back to his yacht and let us work. Yes there were the layoff and they sucked but we have continued to hemorage people since then. Normally you have to clot the wound even if it is self inflicted but Saylor and senior management are literally letting the company bleed out. Without people to run the company it does not matter how successful the product is. Everyone I know in tech has had room for advancement but in other departments there is none as middle management has been here generally 8-12 years.