Women Beware - Recensione dipendente - Software Test Engineer presso MicroStrategy

1,0
12 set 2015
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

Good location in Tysons Corner, near the mall Nice gym Very nice co-workers Garage parking Decent work hours, 8 per day

Svantaggi

Hmmmm.....am a bit suspicious of all the recent glowing reviews. I recently left MicroStrategy because the place is seriously messed up. I agree with all of the other reviews that depict Michael Saylor as a deranged megalomaniac who threw the company into chaos last year by firing twenty percent of its workforce. He then became perplexed as to why the company was not operating smoothly and efficiently and decided to insert himself into every single department of the company and demand to know why it was not operating at peak performance. He also fires anyone who disagrees with him. He is surrounded by terrified toadies and mealy mouthed minions. There is also some serious sexual misconduct going on in this company. The executives on the top floor are primarily short, ugly, middle aged men who like to hire and ogle young, sexy women who are not necessarily qualified for their jobs. They have a particular fetish for tiny Asian women. There are lots of "sexy schoolgirl" types. The executives openly flirt with these young women, date them, and give them special privileges. If you come to work here and you are an attractive young woman, you can expect sexual harassment of some kind. You will be summoned to the top floor to eat with the executives, "be nice" and play their games. If you choose not to do this, there could be problems for you. And please remember, young women, you will always lose in this scenario. They have all the power and you will always lose. This company is located in Virginia and you can be fired at any time for no reason at all and be given a negative review and recommendation. This is not a positive place for women. I felt very discouraged and sad by what I saw - I thought the 1950's days of "Mad Men" were over, but not here they aren't.

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5,0
30 lug 2025
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

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

Svantaggi

No management level issues at least in my team.

3,0
14 giu 2026
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

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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