Beware of stock-based compensation - Pre-Sales Engineer Neo4j Employee Review

2.0
Sep 10, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Graph is very intuitive and fun.

Cons

Like many tech companies, part of the compensation may be equity. You'll get a number of shares, vesting over 4 years, that are worth "a lot". It turns out that "a lot" is likely < $10/share (liquidity aside). For me, the equity part of the compensation effectively rounded to almost zero. There was also no 401k match. Neo4j has had a couple of rounds of layoffs. That's worth considering if you have a need for financial stability/security. You're exposed to risks you might see in a startup, but minus the upside.

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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
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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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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