Fantastic company - Member Of Technical Staff MongoDB Employee Review

4.0
Aug 2, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Amazing world-class colleagues. Great, open and transparent culture. People love technology and it is a great opportunity to learn not only about MongoDB, but about databases and distributed systems in general. Your colleagues have deep experience in various areas of software it is an amazing place to learn. The product is very promising, although it does have its shortcomings as it is still relatively early in its life cycle. Twice a week lunch orders from seamless and the fridge stocked with beer and food are awesome!

Cons

Workload can be overwhelming, but that is a good problem to have as the customer base is growing. Unlimited paid vacation sounds great but leads to burnout in practice as most people don't avail of it. Top heavy management structure. Too many VPs, directors and managers, compared to the number of rank and file employees. Disproportionate amount of politics for a company this size, probably due to the top-heavy management structure.

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5.0
Jun 8, 2026
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Pros

The early talent team does a fantastic job supporting interns and making the transition from college to full-time comfortable. Team's truly do care for you

Cons

Felt like there was a lot changes happening at the executive level

2.0
Mar 23, 2026
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Pros

Most benefits are solid, exception being no matching 401K which is kind of insane for tech. Embraces the use of AI for all employees.

Cons

MongoDB is extremely dysfunctional from a marketing POV. The functional silos built a culture of no collaboration and just checking boxes of doing the same things over and over again. Leadership at the MLT level is out of their depth for what the business needs out of marketing to grow. There is arrogance encouraged by a bully CMO who has her favorites that can be held to different standards than others and it is abundantly clear. That attitude trickles down into all of MLT and never really offer solutions, just criticisms. Pay is lower than other companies for the same role. Lack of clarity of what it takes to get a promotion. Blatant disregard for Employee Engagement surveys that have been on a decline for years that leadership takes no ownership on improving.

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