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Good Perks, Toxic Leadership

Team Lead Engineering
Former Employee
Worked at MongoDB for 2 years
August 4, 2025
2.0
Doesn't RecommendNeutral OutlookDoesn't Approve of CEO
Pros
  • salary
  • benefits
  • product image
Cons
  • toxic leadership and bro culture
  • feedback used as a controlling mechanism
  • no work-life balance as a lead in engineering
  • "kill the messenger" attitude, only good messages desired
  • manager behaved aggressively and threatened when I put in my resignation
  • work on weekends promoted and forced company events (questions like "why do you like MongoDB?")

IC level seemed okay-ish; leadership was toxic. It’s sad because it could have been a very good job, but it was made unnecessarily unhealthy and pressuring.

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