MicroStrategy Software Engineer reviews

Our CTO and Technology leadership team are very involved and engaged in the day-to-day management of the teams and the product release cycles. The leadership team meets regularly to understand the release status, which includes reviewing our quality index and scorecard. This information is available to everyone in the company, creating visibility on improvements release-over-release and aligned with our value of Transparency. As we started 2019, we have held three Technology Kick-Off and Training events across our major engineering sites (Washington D.C., Hangzhou China, and Warsaw Poland). We trained over 700 technical professionals, (including managers) on what it means to be a MicroStrategist. Multiple subject areas were covered over the three-day event, including ‘people’ related topics such as goal setting and effective performance management, career pathing and giving feedback. From what I saw and have heard in follow up, our employees were engaged, appreciative, and have expressed a desire to have this training on an annual basis. Our leaders have a diverse range of experience and skills, including those with software engineering backgrounds. We take career development and advancement seriously and spend a significant amount of time considering technical professional’s promotion readiness. During the past year, we have promoted 145 Technologists across our three sites. Our people are the heart and soul of the company, and we want to hear from them - and I appreciate this review from you. We have an open-door policy, where employees can raise concerns to any one of our leaders, including the CTO. Anyone can also come to me or anyone on my team. We recently deployed Workday and have identified functional and matrix managers for our Technology employees. Our leadership structure is one that relies on the collaboration between Product and Engineering mindsets and I do believe Workday is going to help employees better understand who their "transversal" or engineering manager is and help us work through some of the issues I have heard in the past about how the product and engineering mindsets work together.

Thanks for the review. I want to note that we currently have an opening for a Training resource in our Technology department. The role of that resource is to focus on the ongoing development of our Tech employees as I would agree, we have traditionally not done enough to keep skills current and help people progress in their careers. This year, we are seeing some change even without that position. Our Tech team is just wrapping up a month that has featured three "Technology Kick Off Events" and as we bring on more resources to focus on talent development in technology, I expect our career and manager development programs will significantly improve.