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      4.0

      77% would recommend to a friend

      (2,535 total reviews)

      CJ Desai

      76% approve of CEO

      72% positive business outlook

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      4.0

      Diversity & inclusion

      4.0

      Compensation and benefits

      3.9

      Culture & values

      3.9

      Career opportunities

      3.7

      Work/Life balance

      3.6

      Senior management

      MongoDB has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 2,535 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The MongoDB employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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      3K reviews
      3.0
      Apr 13, 2016

      Awesome Technology - Bad Executive Sales Leadership

      Inside sales
      Recommend
      CEO approval
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      Pros

      MongoDB's technology is second to none. Work atmosphere (Austin Office) was a lot of fun. Great people working there. The Austin Office makes sure they have office events to ensure everyone is engaged. Loved attending those!

      Cons

      Headcount vs quota is out of whack. The product is free, and trying to get someone to pay for something they have been using for years is pretty tough. Especially, when there is really not a functional change between the free version versus the enterprise version. Sure, there are some advantages for paying for it, but not enough advantages for MongoDB's asking price. They also scaled up sales fast, without understanding the financial trade off of having reps not hitting their number.

      4.0
      Mar 19, 2016

      Director Business Operations

      Director business operations
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      I've joined MongoDB in the early stage and left after 4 years. Those 4 years were amazing, I experienced hyper-growth which resulted in an array of great opportunities for me. The pace was fast and it was amazing to see how a company of about 25 people grows to 400 in that small amount of time.

      Cons

      A lot of management and executive change specifically in my last 2 years there lead to a lot of re-direction and re-orientation of what we (and I with my team) were trying to achieve. I do believe this was necessary though and in the end there is different leadership needed at certain stages of a growing company.

      2.0
      Mar 3, 2016

      Try to Get it Right

      Manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      MongoDB is an outstanding database product as proved by the many customers who have used it. It's fast, flexible, and it delivers the business value it promises -- Can't beat that! The culture is a classic start-up with a long way to go to profitability. It's kinda shocking that the investment bankers have convinced the market that a company losing money for multiple years is worth $1.6B.

      Cons

      Just like every software product it has problems. But the biggest problem is its commercial model. Buying the product may serve well the small organization that's going to spend $70K so they get "Enterprise Support", etc. But the large organization that would otherwise spend $millions can just download the free version and hire a technology team to support and promote the product internally. Prospects say to our Enterprise Sales people, "Why would I pay for that when I can download it for free and support it myself?". MongoDB blames that on Sales. Now, that's an easy "cop out". Maybe MongoDB needs to revise its commercial model and stop bleeding money and going to the market for more capital, since the firms revenue can't seem to pay its bills.

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