Absolutely Great Product. Some smart people and some otherwise. - Senior Consultant MicroStrategy Employee Review

2.0
25 Oct 2010
Recommend
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Pros

Great Product suite. Very good compared to other products in the market. Top level leadership is very good. I think Michael Saylor has great vision for the industry. We need people like him who set the trends in the industry. He is also a role model since he did not give up even when the company went bust in 2000. What a great recovery!! Talks a lot about his leadeship capabilities. Sales and Account Execs are good and know how to do their job. Bigger customers get more attention and a lot of them love the product.

Cons

HR sucks. There is no transparency in communications / guidelines / policies / promotions / salary hikes. Tech. support sucks. They have nothing but vanilla answers for you. Consulting leadership is a mess. A lot of people who don't know technology or the product or anything about BI ended up in leadership positions. Not ideal for a product company. Consulting leadership wants to sell and pocket their commissions. Actual project implementation is left to consultants with little or no help. As a result customer satisfaction is really low.

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5.0
30 Jul 2025
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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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