Growing company, strong leadership - Engineer, Developer Education MongoDB Employee Review

4.0
Jan 19, 2022
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Pros

MongoDB is a growing company that employs a ton of smart people. Great opportunities to learn from experienced folks across the organization. Affinity groups make it possible to work with other like-minded folks toward common goals within the organization. Strong leadership with a growth mindset means MongoDB will continue to grow, providing new opportunities for its employees as well as competitive compensation and equity grants.

Cons

Like many fast-growing companies, some of MongoDB's processes and communication strategies have not scaled with the growth. It can be difficult to know who to talk to about something. MongoDB offers a lot of perks and programs for employees, but finding out about them isn't always timely. In a company this size, it's easy to feel siloed within your team and disconnected from what the rest of the company is doing. It would be nice to see more diversity in R&D and in leadership roles. The company works to actively engage with its employees via surveys, feedback, and in answering questions during all-hands meetings, but doesn't always do a good job of following up in response to those things after actions have been taken.

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5.0
Jun 17, 2026
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Pros

Smart coworkers, fun projects. At the time it still felt like small enough of a company to know people. It's truly an inflection point of my career to work there.

Cons

Not a lot of office perks compared to other big tech companies.

2.0
Mar 23, 2026
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Most benefits are solid, exception being no matching 401K which is kind of insane for tech. Embraces the use of AI for all employees.

Cons

MongoDB is extremely dysfunctional from a marketing POV. The functional silos built a culture of no collaboration and just checking boxes of doing the same things over and over again. Leadership at the MLT level is out of their depth for what the business needs out of marketing to grow. There is arrogance encouraged by a bully CMO who has her favorites that can be held to different standards than others and it is abundantly clear. That attitude trickles down into all of MLT and never really offer solutions, just criticisms. Pay is lower than other companies for the same role. Lack of clarity of what it takes to get a promotion. Blatant disregard for Employee Engagement surveys that have been on a decline for years that leadership takes no ownership on improving.

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