Terrible work life balance. Toxic management. - Anonymous employee MongoDB Employee Review

3.0
Jan 16, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Good product. Free laptops. Office snacks

Cons

No work life balance HR team that is not very friendly or approachable Toxic upper management

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MongoDB Response
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To be clear, any behavior that creates a toxic or inhospitable environment is unacceptable, and we work very hard to ensure this is not how the company operates. We carefully track our employee engagement scores. While it's clear your experience was quite different, our employee engagement has gone up over the last few years. That being said, one unhappy employee is one too many, so I'm sorry this was your experience. While there is plenty more to do, our goal is to make MongoDB a great place to work and build a career.

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