Great company for growth; Fantastic management team
Pros
MongoDB was my first job, and I am so fortunate to have joined a rocket ship. I work with amazing people. They’re ultra talented, many of them are veritable polymaths. These are the people I want to follow for my entire career. You can't have an amazing company without an amazing product. What brought me to MongoDB was the strength of the database, massive community following and a consistent focus on making users successful. My team would go to the ends of the earth for a customer, and that makes me feel proud of who I work for. Now MongoDB has the fastest-growing database community and it's in large part thanks to thoughtful engineering, a dedicated community and a focus on user success. Another positive is the transparency. I’m often amazed at how open our executive team is with us about our company and team’s performance, what we’re doing improve as a whole and how the executive team is working on their own personal growth. The executive team is very approachable -- I speak withVP or a C-level exec as fairly often at MongoDB. t’s a really positive environment to perform at your best. After 3 years at MongoDB, I left for another startup. I have since come back, but here’s a little context. I mostly left because I wasn’t sure I would get the same level of growth that I got in my first three years. MongoDB was my first real job and I thought I needed to try something else to fully round out my skill set. It didn’t take long to realize my poor judgement. I didn’t find the same level of talent anywhere else. I came back to MongoDB 9 months later and I’ve been very happy with that decision. The new management team is fantastic and is focused on putting us in a position for success.
Cons
Everything moves very fast. You need to be be prepared for that before joining this company. There’s so much opportunity here and a lot to accomplish, and this means that the workload is quite demanding. This can overwhelm a lot of people -- I know I often feel stressed and overwhelmed at work. But I know I would be bored anywhere else. The positive side to this is that the management team is reasonable and quite easy to work with. The executives are very approachable and although they are demanding, it’s a respectful environment. Growth opportunities at MongoDB are very high, but you do have to be patient for them. I know a number of people who have joined and are so hungry for growth opportunities that they forget about the core goal of the company -- to drive adoption of MongoDB and build out a competitive business. Of course, credit for work can never come soon enough, but I’ve found that sometimes promotions have been slow. This has changed somewhat with the new executive team and a number of promotions have been given out to veterans who have contributed to the company, but it’s still slower than many people would like.
