Pros: There is no expectation that you work long hours into the evening. A lot of engineers are fairly approachable.

Cons: Engineering culture is dying, turning into Amazon. Pip quota.

Pros: A very amazing company with nice people.

Cons: Not that many cons for this company.

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.