Pros

A really great place to work with young, enthusiastic and hard working people. You might make some great connections and learn a lot. You will most likely learn all of the wrong ways to do something, which is great experience for your next job.

Cons

The manager of my department would frequently lie to us and have private one on one meetings to try and pit us against each other.

Matrikon is a software development company but they have no money to fund IT infrastructure. IT staff get trained in how to manipulate and lie to the other employees and successfully deny hardware/software requests so that company morale is not affected. The truth must not be revealed!

You will be given just enough rope to hang yourself with. If you are hired it is most likely because you are young, naive and fresh out of school; this is because you won't know better at first. If you show initiative and desire you will be quickly promoted - no one will tell you that your salary is completely negotiable and you have to fight for it. Once promoted you will be given harder projects; you most likely will not be given the resources you need because the company has no money. You will be able to get some help and advice from your co-workers but all the actual experience has either left the company or been fired because experience costs to much.

Don't bother talking to the HR department. Their job is to weed out malcontents like yourself and make sure your manager keeps a close eye on you.

The company slogan is "Bleed Matrikon".

You might work really hard, put in extra work, volunteer for extracurricular activities and get fired anyway.

A stock price below $3 for over 2 years.

Advice to Senior Management

Just give up and sell. You are horrible people and no one has any faith in you.