Pros
Please bear in mind that this review comes from a non engineering or sales part of the company. I'm very conflicted with my feelings to mongo, while i loved my time there and had great relationships with my colleagues and Manager's, ultimately the power grabbing amongst the director level and above leadership soured what was a great time at mongo. Great c level leadership that's very transparent about company wide issues. Although their framing of why working with certain clients could be more direct than skirting around the fact that we are ultimately a business. Colleagues in general are great and highly skilled. With that being said, a huge toleration genius jerks within the entire company. Great benefits, perks, and work-life balance if you demand it. Office is amazing even with proximity to times square. Never was micromanaged almost to a fault of taking stabs at the dark with little to no support/direction from direct manager or higher levels. Yearly raises and RSU grant's, no matter how small they at least kept up with inflation prior to 2022.
Cons
Power struggles, while i think c-level leaders are generally pretty clear in terms of goals. Their directs and below take it as a chance to jostle for power leading to horrid processes and endless meetings that go nowhere and stalemates in process that haven't grown since pre-ipo days. In my last 13 months at mongo i went through 3 managers due to the inability for the internal partners my team worked with to prioritize their own goals and deliver clear deliverables besides keeping the company running. As a whole the company talks a lot about diversity and promoting work life balance. Ultimately prioritizing work life balance is what I feel stagmented my growth at mongo. While other team members burned the midnight oil (literally) as was customized by one of my managers. I clearly set my boundaries when it came to this and felt this led to being passed over every promotion cycle. While management is cognizant enough that during COVID and the subsequent social justice movements that happened a day off every quarter would be appreciated, this is the most they've done to promote d&i. The lack of diversity at leadership clearly shows this as well as the exodus of POC from the part of the org i worked in who all moved on due to lack of career growth. If you don't work in one of the money making parts of mongo be prepared to be constantly told no to getting additional resources for projects or actual concrete development opportunities besides the horrid soft skills courses that are constantly championed by L&D.
