MicroStrategy Reviews

Pros

Balance between work and life, enough training to get started

Cons

Promotion is mostly based on working years, not that fair

Pros

Great work/personal life balance, most of the time respecting personal time, and compensating for overtime. Pay is decent for job functions.

Cons

There is almost null training, whether it is on industry-wide standards and practices or new technologies. Similarly, time dedicated to training is somewhat limited.

In terms of growth, opportunity is scarce although it is easy to move horizontally.

Advice to Senior Management

Create career paths for employees to develop abilities that help them grow personally in that path. Incentivate, promote and/or pay for training.

Pros

Good atmosphere, friendly environment, fair compensation, moderate pressure. A nice place to enjoy your life, but if you want to be aggressive and make fast progress in your career, it might not be a good choice.

Cons

"Flat management" means you don't have much opportunity to get promoted. Promotions are largely based on "years-of-service", not ability or performance.

Advice to Senior Management

More efforts need to be made on helping employees to grow and advance in their career path. Better measurement system should be adopted to observe employee's performance.

Pros

Good co. - Lots of training options. Good growth / recognition.

Cons

Be ready to travel if you are a consultant (mainly within area, but sometimes outside also - well, after all they make money only when you are billing ...). Experience limited to the tool.

Advice to Senior Management

have stock options and other benefits available to make employees feel part of the family.

Pros

Good quality code and products to work on
Good work life balance
Minimal process overhead found in bigger companies

Cons

Limited encouragement, opportunity for trying alternative career paths or change teams
Uninspiring management

Advice to Senior Management

Be transparent

Pros

Benefits and compensation plans are above average. Opportunities for growth and advancement are also above average.

Cons

Sometimes messaging about new products and services takes some time to get through the organization.

Pros

Great place to work

Smart people in the company so you learn a lot

Good work life balance

Very good product

growing company

Cons

Compensation

Growth is very structured even if your performance is superb (i.e. promotion every 2 years on an average)

Advice to Senior Management

Retain the talent

Pros

Growing company
Always pushing for new technology
Room for advancement from within

Cons

Managing growth properly and effectively

Pros

Young environment, laid back, not much of a dress code

Cons

Dont pay enough comapred to other emplyers in the same business

Advice to Senior Management

Pay the employers atleast the same compared to toehr employers

Pros

smart, international co-workers
great technology
nice conferences in Miami, Vegas
mobility within company, can switch between departments though takes time (6 months at least)
Saylor is an amazing visionary
I had great managers in every department I worked in, people who truly cared about me and developing my career.

Cons

little brand recognition
overly focused on technology - marketing too techie
lack of strategic thinking for the long term
management have all been there for 15+ years since the company was small, little outside perspective or MBAs
very slow to get raise or move positions, HR is not powerful (though this is true in general, HR really has no power)

Advice to Senior Management

hire more experts from outside
pay for advanced degrees/MBAs
focus more on sales and marketing instead of just the technology