A Squandered Future - Anonymous employee Neo4j Employee Review

2.0
Dec 8, 2023
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Product was unique, high value to customers who understand how to utilize its abilities. Many good, well meaning employees trying to make the company successful High barriers to market, giving Neo4j a distinct advantage in a complex technology space

Cons

- This was once a great company, with great prospects, but the company strategically continues to miss the boat on market opportunities by moving to slow to jump on the wave of where organizations are focusing and showing the greatest interest. For example, really late to the market on AI and no real marketing punch or market strategy (100% C-Suite Lack of Execution) - Technology focused to a fault. The company is so enamored with it's technology that it doesn't realize that real enterprises have to buy it and justify using it at a large scale. This is a company forever locked in on innovators and early adopters and can't grasp why real database companies like Oracle or MongoDB have cracked the code. - Two years ago, the marketing department was in need of a re-tool and upgrade to take the company to the next level and help drive much needed market awareness and sales leads. They brought in some gotta-be-the-smartest-in-the-room outsider, who's done an amazing job at transforming it into a marketing organization that still needs a re-tool and upgrade, so no progress, and no understanding on how to make progress. It's been a disaster. I don't need to add more, there are plenty of real reviews where people are speaking the truth, mixed in with the 5-star 'its great' which I presume are mostly HR averaging-up reviews.

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5.0
Apr 23, 2026
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Pros

good culture, flexible job, good pay and benefits

Cons

not a ton of promotion opportunities

5.0
Feb 19, 2026
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Pros

exciting technology that’s used by organizations all over the world, from large global companies to startups engineering and product teams are top class, and there’s a strong sense of technical excellence across the company the people are fantastic. highly capable in their roles and just genuinely good humans to work with real opportunities to travel and connect with teams, as well as to grow and expand your career recent leadership changes in the go to market and people teams have had a positive impact and seem to be strengthening alignment and execution

Cons

tighter customer budgets and longer buying cycles creating challenges

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