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Mastery Logistics Systems

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Mostly good but lots to improve upon - Staff Software Engineer Mastery Logistics Systems Employee Review

4.0
Jul 22, 2021
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Pros

-Not top tier but generous compensation for the Midwest -Mostly smart, ambitious, and hard-working coworkers -Many health insurance options with employer covering 90% premiums, standard 401K match immediately vested, unlimited PTO you can actually use -Modern technologies and frameworks and quality personal hardware -In office or remote options depending on preference

Cons

-For a clean slate startup seems to have gotten a lot wrong(already swapping out backend data stores, changing languages, completely rewriting services, data integration treated as afterthought) -Trying to be a SaaS product but still customizing excessively per individual client request. This is not scalable or sustainable but putting the genie back in the bottle now is more difficult. -Separate processes per client already a release scaling nightmare. Will not support the multitude of customers coming on board in current state. -Product built around the initial few customers too heavily and forethought wasn't given to the future. Sacrificed standards and practices just to "get out the door" -Granted equity but like most early startups hard to know if it'll ever be worth anything.

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5.0
Mar 20, 2026
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Pros

It's great, engineers get a lot of time to focus, not a lot of meetings.

Cons

Very product lead, engineers do not have much say in the roadmap.

2.0
May 14, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

There is a strong collaborative spirit amongst the engineers and their management. Mastery hires a lot of highly experienced, dedicated individuals.

Cons

They demand overtime work without paying for it. Contractors are pre-approved for 40 hours per week; anything beyond that must be approved in writing ahead of time. The company never approves anything beyond 40 hours, yet they regularly demand excess work. I averaged 12 hours per week of unpaid overtime while I was there. The best employees are unceremoniously dropped, and the timing of these cuts is at the very least suspicious. My team's product manager was incredibly effective and well-liked. He took a long weekend (approved weeks in advance) to attend a wedding, and was let go the day he was supposed to return. A staff engineer was hospitalized for 4 days, and he mentioned upon returning that he may need to take some time off in the near future. They instantly canned him. I was working with two engineers on a high priority feature that required round-the-clock efforts over a weekend. As soon as the feature was complete, our accesses were locked from all systems and the three of us were replaced with six offshore hires. The company processes are geared toward visible metrics as opposed toward productivity. Examples: engineer performance is gauged by number of lines of code written; any production issue requires at least 10 engineers on a Zoom call until the issue is resolved, instead of letting people actually focus on solving the problem.

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