Matrikon Reviews

Pros

agile methodology is being used stringently here

Cons

salaries after entry are not revised properly

Pros

Flexible, agile, young, fun, driven, focused, results oriented. Good place to work with great people. Opportunities to travel and see the world

Cons

Lack of communication at times, not enough balance, work hard and play hard, but sometimes too much work. unique culture

Advice to Senior Management

more communication, more team building, encourage more balance, over communicate is preferred to not know. Stay positive and up beat

Pros

Ability to travel to interesting places

Cons

Hard to move up the corporate ladder

Advice to Senior Management

Better support of employees for professional development and growth

Pros

easy to go up the ladder

Cons

lesser pay standard compared to industry standard

Advice to Senior Management

need to be competitive when it comes to pay

Pros

- for the most part people are good at what they do, easy to get along with
- opportunity for some travel if you are into that
- a nice intro to proper development practices for ppl new to the industry

Cons

- not much to work on that is "cool" or interesting
- management can ignore developers and does not address morale problems
- low pay compared to other places

Advice to Senior Management

Pay attention to employees and make sure they are taken care of!

Pros

- flexible hours
- freedom to be an individual
- good products and respected company

Cons

- political
- lots of emphasis on being billable at all costs
- untrained senior management

Advice to Senior Management

Get management training and not something set up internally.

Pros

- Excellent work/life balance
- Good communications and mutual respect for all employees

Cons

- low salary
- unclear career path

Advice to Senior Management

None

Pros

- Work\Life Balance
- Diversity of workforce
- Customers
- Family oriented
- Performance salaries

Cons

- Stressfull at times
- Dynamic targets
- Economy pressures

Advice to Senior Management

Remove the unimpressed and lower performing employees. It is disheartening to have to work sometimes with those who you can tell do not care. If they are only looking for a paycheck they can go into retail.

Pros

Nice place to work
Amazing people
Lot oportunities to get new acknowlege and apply it
Flat organization
Average Benefits

Cons

Average Benefits
There are not a real plan about grow with Matrikon
Freeze Salaries(But it is not Matrikon Problem, recession was the problem).
There are not a real route map in short, middle and long term.

Advice to Senior Management

Take the advantage of Flat organization in order to get fresh ideas from new people, sometimes is hard to see outside the hole and new people can provide new ideas. With a Flat organization should exist a technical caree that allow grow with the company and allow to get salary raise.

Pros

-Excellent place to gain experience
-Office social club is very active and fun
-Young average age for a proffessional office
-Open Door policy with senior management

Cons

-Matrikon actually has an excellent open door policy with senior management. Myself and my department never had a problem with this. Except the fact that when we do bring something critical up nothing gets done about it. In fact there was one time where we brought a very important issue regarding a manager to our senior management and we were written up by Human Resources for "not going through the proper channels to address the issue". What is the point of having an open door policy if issues will not be dealt with at that level? Needless to say the issue was never brought up again due to fear of getting written up again or let go.
-Some frontline managers are inexperienced with leadership and management. Cannot properly guide there employees to grow or gain experience.
-Salaries are not competitive.
-When more roles and responsibilities are given, no compensation is provided. Basically, more work, yet same pay.
-Extremely high turnover rate for a corporate company.

Advice to Senior Management

Senior Management - Please do a thorough evaluation of leadership and management skills of your frontline managers as they are the ones that encourage the growth of your employees which means growth of your company. Please do not stress an open door policy if you do not want to deal with your employees issues.

Frontline Managers - Please be a leader and someone to look up to. If you lack knowledge in a certain area, try to go learn it instead of using your employees as an excuse.