Great technology with high pressure on sales and weird management decisions - Anonymous employee MongoDB Employee Review

2.0
Feb 2, 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great colleagues and quite friendly atmosphere. Flexible working times and the possibility to be an entrepreneur / individual contributor within the company. Fantastic engineering, services and support departments: Great people and very enthusiastic. Great customers and community which are believing into the product.

Cons

Middle management is not saying what they are thinking to the upper management. (No vision, just waiting for IPO) Very US centric with lack of individual territorial management capabilities. Quite a few management changes over the last twelve months. Companies and territorial performance numbers and goals are unclear except of growth. Compensation plans are changed more than twice a year.

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5.0
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Pros

The early talent team does a fantastic job supporting interns and making the transition from college to full-time comfortable. Team's truly do care for you

Cons

Felt like there was a lot changes happening at the executive level

2.0
Mar 23, 2026
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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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