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      Positive energy, young people, smart people, recent emphasis on innovation - Software Engineer MicroStrategy Employee Review

      4.0
      Dec 17, 2017
      Software engineer
      Recommend
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      Pros

      Innovation program and events ( twice a year one week hackathon, 20/80 program : 20% of your time assigned to your own project if approved) If do believe there is a true initiative to make this place, a great place to work, we have diverse events, team event every quarter (even though we might have to remind this advantage a bit) I am kind sad to see recurrent skeptical comments, I would (maybe naively) hope more employee would feel like I do, I am excited to go to work everyday and I enjoy my team and my work. Good work life balance, my managers are very comprehensive and caring about my growth and personal well being.

      Cons

      There is a quite hybrid version of Agile applied, I think that leave the SMs a little bit powerless. There is wrong agile rules being applied that biases the whole point of SM, like 1 point = 6 hours (the velocity will never change, there is always 40 hours in a week), so it is kind of impossible to get anything out of this data, to learn from it, have meaningful look at our productivity (like you are expecting from Agile). And this meaningless data is a key metric for the data driven management.. There is a true believe that being a data-driven with "switches" that you can turn up or down is the dream company... on the contrary, I personally don't believe it is possible to inspire people in the long term with the carrot and stick approach. We need to leave enough autonomy and trust to employee so they can do their best work. I do think the 20/80 program initiative is driving us in the right direction. The compensation is not what I would expect even though I do feel recognized. The promotion do not solve that problem much (little raise). It is too bad because the only solution to "fix" our salary seems to change company.

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      MicroStrategy Response
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      Thank you for this thoughtful feedback. I appreciate that you have noticed the energy we are putting into making MicroStrategy a great place to come to work and that you have provided some very thoughtful perspective on where we should be focusing next. Yes, our version of Agile is a bit different of an application than what I have seen in other companies - and we are continuing to evolve how we use it and manage through Agile. You have great perspective on the balance of data driven management. Understanding and leveraging our key metrics to manage the business is critical to helping direct the company AND it is critical that we inspire a culture where people feel they can take risks, innovate, and if innovative ideas don't work out, simply move on to the next idea. That is how great products are developed and how we will continue to differentiate ourselves in the market.

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      5.0
      Jul 30, 2025
      Software engineer
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

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

      Cons

      No management level issues at least in my team.

      3.0
      Jun 14, 2026
      Various roles
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      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

      Cons

      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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