MicroStrategy is and will always be a company dictated by poor leadership. The new CTO is a prime example of a disastrous leader and should not have been named CTO in the first place. MicroStrategy used to be filled with the top technology talent and recently most of them have ran out the door because of the CTO. You will never find him engaging with the technology teams on their floors, but rather sitting away locked in his office having meeting after meeting on how to fix things.
The recruiting team tries to promise all of the college students a great place to come work and how great of an opportunity it is, but in reality you will be stuck in a cube and become just a number. College students beware of coming to work here. The CTO has no plan for you and everything is very disorganized. They promise you a rotational program, yet the new hires never get the chance to rotate. Your manager will probably change every few months, as the only people that stick around MicroStrategy are the ones that have been there forever and have the "in" with the CTO.
If you don't mind a place where you have to suck up to the upper management and do as they say, then maybe this is the place for you.
As a recent college grad, I was hoping to walk into a young, hip and fun office space. MicroStrategy is the farthest thing from that and you would never know they were technology company walking into the office. The walls are bare, there are cubicles everywhere, an an Usher system that goes offline everyday and as a programmer this office space is your worst nightmare. Just walk across the street to Capital Ones office to see what I am talking about.
