Pros: Very strong and competent upper and middle management; very strong product org backing engineering.

Cons: Diminished social and office perks since COVID has closed the office.

Pros: In the words of a friend I recently asked to come to our new top-floor Sussex St Chinatown office for interviews: “The people here are really switched on.” In their spare time, they work on being allies and advancing the causes of gender equality, building artificial endocrine systems, playing amazing board games I have not even heard of, table tennis, women’s groups, escape rooms, MIT puzzles challenges, skunkworks, sustainability – all of which dwarfs my teamwork in successfully defending a world championship with UNSW Computer Science and Engineering in teaching robots to play soccer, with no human intervention and no remote control; or advancing the cause of mathematics education via building out a step-by-step platform for ideas worth spreading, like “Should we be paying our kids to do their maths homework?”

Cons: A long-term focus on thinking big and going far. Please don't apply at MongoDB if you aren't expecting to be with MongoDB for the four-year contract.

Pros: Salary is too good, but

Cons: The hike is very low for the same.