Application Engineering for Mathworks in Bay Area
Hi. What do you think about joining Mathworks as Application Engineer in Bay Area? I am seriously considering if i should make the move. Glassdoor has many positive feedback on their work environment. Maybe it will give me a break from the stress of Corporate ups and downs culture? I will finally have a real office? Their webinars are awesome! They have darn good experienced engineers. I will study all Sunday to ace the interview. I am excited. What would you advice? I am HW Eng. Shall I expect to be paid as SWE? They are privately held company. What to expect differently? At least they dont have to please Wall Street and investors! 11 yoe HW Eng and pro programmer of Matlab like most of us.
Why would you work for a private company that has no possibility for IPO? They would never IPO because they don’t have to. But you’re getting screwed. Most people here get rich via IPO or RSUs
Yeah. But how many percent is that? How many companies make it to IPO?
What a funny question. Why do you need to know percentage. When you join a company you know whether they will IPO or not. They will tell you. Lyft, Uber, Airbnb.
Magnetic I think you'll learn a lot. As an Applications Engineer you will learn from engineer-customers and EVERYONE and their grandma uses Matlab. Companies have gladly paid for Matlab for YEARS and I don't see this ever waning. Octave is a decent open source equivalent but it falls short of Matlab of course. TC isn't the most important metric when changing jobs although I'm sure Mathworks will beat your Intel pay by 25% (cuz they know you won't leave otherwise).
🙋♀️ yay thank you for your feedback. That is what I felt like waiting for me. I am hungry to learn a lot and would love to have a tech but more social work, meeting customers. In my team we work on the same technology for soo many years and i feel the need to make a change in my career.
I wonder how they compete with Python.
Pay sucks but culture and WLb is ok