Leadership motto: fake it till you make it - Technical Program Manager MongoDB Employee Review

1.0
Jan 5, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

1. A small number of employees were genuinly wonderful people.

Cons

1. Extremely toxic working environment 2. Political drama in the extreme. Expect to have to watch your back at all times. 3. Leaders are chosen on their submission to the status quo. An environment this toxic enables only further toxicity to rise. Management is full of individuals who abuse the reporting structure to ensure only a subservient class of employee survives. Company culture is extremely toxic due to a high number of “fake it till you make it”VPs and directors. These individuals care only about their appearance to their own management and ignore their apparent duties, abusing the power dyamic between themselves and team members.

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MongoDB Response
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Thank you for taking the time to provide feedback. Our goal is to ensure that everyone has a positive experience working at MongoDB, and the more information we have, the better we can address issues. Leadership decisions are based on an individual’s skills, proven success, and ability to uphold a culture of inclusion, creativity, learning, and development. The continued development of our managers and leaders is a focus area for this fiscal year as we continue to scale. We are committed to promoting from within and developing our future leaders in order to cultivate a supportive, high-growth, and inclusive culture where employees can thrive. We encourage employees to reach out to our Employee Experience team (employeeexperience@mongodb.com) if they feel their leaders or team culture is negatively impacting their role and experience at MongoDB.

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