Pros: The people and culture that I work with are smart and enjoyable to be around!

Cons: There is no 401k matching.

Pros: The project planning structure gives individual contributors a lot of ownership and decision-making authority. The product itself is compelling. This varies, but on average managers are decent (mine was great!) and teams are friendly.

Cons: This is a shareholder-value shop. If that’s your jam, cool. If it’s not, townhalls will be a depressing affair. In addition to living in ethics purgatory, senior leadership employs a really uninspiring, 90s-era management attitude that is super dissonant from the innovative tech products.

Pros: The actual work here is very interesting. As a systems engineer, I couldn't ask for much that's more exciting than helping build a database. Peers are very intelligent, and care is put into making committed code as good as it can be. I've learned so much on the job here.

Cons: Management is unskilled and untrained. Some people who work here are jerks, and are allowed to keep being jerks as long as they produce quality code. This drives away other talented, friendlier engineers. The culture is unhealthy in promoting quality/quantity of work over most else--interpersonal relations, work-life balance, and personal sanity included. Diversity in age, race, gender, religion, undergraduate college, and many other vectors is sorely lacking. Female employees, especially engineers, are treated unfairly no matter how much MongoDB pays lip service to this cause.