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Great people, great culture, great momentum

Staff Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at MongoDB for 9 years
March 23, 2022
New York, New York
5.0
RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEO
Pros

Truly collegial engineering culture, backed up by "no jerks" hiring. Lots of opportunity for taking ownership and growing in responsibility. Challenging problems to work on. Tremendous market adoption and post-IPO growth rate. Lots of management transparency. Excellent work/life balance if you want it. Relatively little politics.

Cons

Decision-making can be process-heavy. Product management is uneven and often too influential. Despite a big SaaS business, SRE/DevOps capabilities seem immature. Performance review/promotion processes are opaque and subjective. Some departments are more insular and tribal than others. Rapid growth has led to many inexperienced managers. Despite genuine efforts, the company has struggled to improve diversity, particularly in technical leadership roles.

Advice to Management

Keep up the great execution in sales and market penetration!

But internal engineering vision needs to be more tangible and less buzzword soup.

Should invest significantly in operational maturity.

Additional Ratings

Work/Life Balance
5.0
Culture and Values
5.0
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
4.0
Career Opportunities
4.0
Compensation and Benefits
4.0
Senior Management
5.0

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