Company is going downhill fast - Software Engineer MicroStrategy Employee Review

2.0
17 Nov 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Decent pay for mid level company

Cons

Any pros that may have existed with this company have disappeared. It is no longer even really a tech company, it is a bitcoin ETF that uses their BI business as collateral to obtain loans to buy more bitcoin. The BI business has taken a backseat, so engineers won't be working on anything particularly interesting here. The new CEO seems to be an empty suit with an MBA with no vision for innovation, and only knows how to cut costs to improve the balance sheet. He has also mandated coming into the office 4 days a week, which should make MicroStrategy an automatic disqualifier for any talented engineers looking for work in 2024. The bonuses and pay raises have essentially halted, and the workload has increased significantly per employee due to the massive layoffs that occurred earlier in the fall. I would be surprised if this company exists in 5 years.

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5.0
30 Jul 2025
Recommend
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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
14 Jun 2026
Recommend
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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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