Working here is a career, health, and safety risk - Senior Manager, Technology MicroStrategy Employee Review

1.0
Dec 30, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

No accountability, goals, or actual work required. If you want to coast in your career and get paid... this is the place to do it. Ironic for a company that sells a data product.

Cons

Where to even start. I honestly can't believe this place hasn't been shutdown for illegal business practices or discriminatory acts. Shame on the leadership and board. I can't believe you sleep at night. This place and its leaders are immoral. It treats its people so poorly, it's just awful. There is no effort to support its employees with the right benefits, no employee resource groups, training doesn't exist and the abuse is at all levels. The constant change isn't because it's "agile." It's because the CEO, COO, CTO, and CHRO have no clue how to run a business and they are failing it. Your career will suffer here. Your skills with atrophy and it will be hard to adjust to working at a real company in the future. No career paths or career growth. Favorites get new titles and money, but it doesn't mean they are strong workers. For being a technology company, it is SO behind with it's own technology, practices and capabilities. I've worked at older and slower businesses that run better and have better technology. It's inefficient, ineffective and a product of the 1990s. You'll also forget to have an opinion and that you have expertise and knowledge. This place just tells people what to do and you are told not to share ideas or have an opinion. Not to mention the stability. Layoffs occured all year and will continue in the future. This place is a revolving door of talent that doesn't stay more than 18 months. Don't get me started with this bitcoin nonsense. This company may be in business for years to come, but doesn't mean it will grow or be productive. Get out while you can and be happy your name won't be tied to this place.

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5.0
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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
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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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