MicroStrategy Software Engineer reviews

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.

For the past two years, my manage has micro-managed and abused his team. The whole team two years ago has left because nobody could stand his ignorance and abuse. As the leader of web team, he is biased on specific person. People who work hard never got promoted. Promise given never got fulfilled. Instead, person who finish the least work got promoted because he has a better connection with manager. As a result, five people who was treated unfairly has left the company for the two years. MicroStrategy should reconsider its major value because what's most important to a company is its people not just the managers. Treat people leaving with dignity instead of saying ill behind back！ Cut down the numbers of VPs, hire more people who will do the real work instead of people who would only flatter managers.