MongoDB Sr. Software Engineer reviews

Since the stock price took a huge hit due to Revenue reports in 2024, culture has majorly shifted to become more blame-based and a lot of people have recently been put on pretty performative PIPs and then let go (with zero severance!) even when all PIP action items were adequately fulfilled... generally is a worse place to be now than a couple of years ago and many people are leaving

We're a mature company. I think the big downside here is that we're big enough that we're not always super agile. In particular, when we need things from other teams, it can be hard to get things on their schedule (no doubt they say the same of my team). I think this comes from being a large company that is trying to be fairly organized and plan ahead. That means that every team has a long roadmap, so getting our thing onto that roadmap can be challenging. This doesn't mean that folks on other teams don't want to help. They're super helpful! But when it comes to larger changes, their hands are tied by the planning process.