Neo4j reviews

3.6

63% would recommend to a friend

(228 total reviews)
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Emil Eifrem

66% approve of CEO

59% positive business outlook

Neo4j has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 228 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Neo4j 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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228 reviews
2.0
Jun 4, 2024

Take the Cash, Leave the Stock

Anonymous employee
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Pros

You'll get incentive stock options as part of your compensation package. See Cons section.

Cons

If you receive a job offer with equity, ask the recruiter about the stock options, specifically if you can sell your vested and exercised shares on the secondary market. You'll realize your shares are worthless because Neo4j prevents you from selling them on the secondary market, meaning the only way you'll ever realize any value from them is if the company is acquired or goes public (laugh). See, the company was very sneaky about changing this rule a few years back, and many of us with vested options are now holding worthless paper. What was sneaky is that the change wasn't communicated to employees but slowly emerged as some employees tried to sell their shares and were surprised to find they couldn't. So if the recruiter offers you stock, tell them you'll pass and want more cash instead.

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Neo4j Response
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Thank you for sharing your feedback. I would encourage you to reach out to a member of the People team who can talk through this with you in more detail. Our equity plan is competitive and consistent with how most private companies handle stock options at our stage as a company. - Global People Team
2.0
Mar 24, 2025

Stay away!

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Decent compensation and benefits for the people team

Cons

Stay away from this company until a new Chief People Officer can be hired. The current CPO is extremely toxic, with half a dozen people leaving since she took over, and most of the rest looking to leave as soon as the market allows. Who runs the People team says a lot about how the culture is handled, and the effect spreads to other teams - IT, Finance, Legal, etc. Feedback has been shared many times and it has been met with resistance, blaming others and overall little to no change. Multiple people have reported this behavior but the CEO has done little to stop it from happening. We can only hope that they will hire someone new to lead the team. In the meantime, the culture is, at best, gossipy, sarcastic, rude and unsupportive. I'm only writing what I'd tell a friend if they were interesting in applying. Neo4j used to be so great, and I'm sad that this one person has destroyed such a wonderful team. Until a new CPO can be hired, please, for your own mental health and stability: stay away!

2.0
Nov 22, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Good Product - does what it needs to do. Feedback from customers is overly good/very good.

Cons

Recent hired C-level does have a significant lack of experience filling their roles. Hired from director level at previous companies where they might have done well. In the CxO position at Neo4j they are completely overwhelmed and lose their people big time. Employee satisfaction and employee motivation is low as the feel is you work for inexperienced trainees for the C level role finding their way. Not a good place to get started. As soon as there are alternatives, I'm out.

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