Great place to work - Lead Engineer MongoDB Employee Review

5.0
17 June 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The people are great. They are good at what they do, they care about what they do, and they are easy to work with. They will push for change when they see something can be improved. People who "don't play well with others" are aggressively filtered out as early as possible (usually in interviews) and are remarkably absent from the company. The company is very well run. It's a company that is light on process, and continually reviews its process to make sure it's doing what it's supposed to do, and seeing if it can be improved -- bad or useless process is discarded and replaced. The company works on something that matters. It's not solely focused on making money to the exclusion of everything else, but rather in building something useful for the world. The vacation policy is generous, and management works to make sure that people take advantage of it. The company is growing fast, so there's a lot of opportunity for growth, either moving up in management (if that's your thing) or moving across units for personal technical development.

Cons

While the company is growing, it's still relatively small. There is a lot of opportunities within the areas the company is focused, but there are still many areas someone could be interested in that aren't covered by the company today or in the near future.

Explore other reviews about MongoDB

5.0
17 June 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Smart coworkers, fun projects. At the time it still felt like small enough of a company to know people. It's truly an inflection point of my career to work there.

Cons

Not a lot of office perks compared to other big tech companies.

2.0
23 Mar 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Most benefits are solid, exception being no matching 401K which is kind of insane for tech. Embraces the use of AI for all employees.

Cons

MongoDB is extremely dysfunctional from a marketing POV. The functional silos built a culture of no collaboration and just checking boxes of doing the same things over and over again. Leadership at the MLT level is out of their depth for what the business needs out of marketing to grow. There is arrogance encouraged by a bully CMO who has her favorites that can be held to different standards than others and it is abundantly clear. That attitude trickles down into all of MLT and never really offer solutions, just criticisms. Pay is lower than other companies for the same role. Lack of clarity of what it takes to get a promotion. Blatant disregard for Employee Engagement surveys that have been on a decline for years that leadership takes no ownership on improving.

3
See reviews by: Helpful|Rating|Date|All