MongoDB reviews

Like every company, MongoDB has some growing pains. It is a company growing extremely quickly and this sometimes means directional changes that can feel jarring or frustrating to employees. I experienced a bit of this myself. However, these changes are typically very transparent and seem to gravitate around a general theme of what is best for the employees and the future of this company. Having said that, I would not trade this occasional feeling for a larger environment with a less exciting trajectory.

A year here may indeed lead to a ticket to somewhere else. MongoDB has a very demanding culture and is really looking for "Google-caliber" brains. The problem is, their comp package is nowhere close to Google and others. After recent valuations, new options packages are going to be very low value, they are well past "startup" phase. The biggest challenge with MongoDB is actually the CTO. Despite its popularity, the MongoDB code is really sloppy and suffers from some poor technical decisions that may haunt it forever. If you're an engineer, your inevitable job is to support the product. That means providing support for the sloppy, undocumented code and the poor technical decisions. This makes the job extremely difficult.