Don't drink the kool-aid - Anonymous employee Neo4j Employee Review

3.0
Dec 23, 2024
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

- Leader in an interesting technology - Decent base + bonus - Sticky customers - Good, stable place to work, if you're in product development in the UK or Sweden. - Initially I got to work on interesting projects.

Cons

I drank the Kool Aid as the CEO declared "I want this to be the last job you've ever worked for". Then he brought in new C-level execs, who want to rebuild. It's typical and understandable that they wanted to bring their own people. I accepted that my days were numbered, but the way it was done was really bad. The VP hired above me was particularly horrendous. They left me and team members with emotional trauma. They liked to micromanage and used bullying tactics - like public humiliation and yelling - when things didn't go their way. even when they caused the outcome through their micromanagement. They were a bully in meetings, even cross functionally. I was glad to be out of there when I had the chance.

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5.0
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Pros

good culture, flexible job, good pay and benefits

Cons

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5.0
Feb 19, 2026
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Pros

exciting technology that’s used by organizations all over the world, from large global companies to startups engineering and product teams are top class, and there’s a strong sense of technical excellence across the company the people are fantastic. highly capable in their roles and just genuinely good humans to work with real opportunities to travel and connect with teams, as well as to grow and expand your career recent leadership changes in the go to market and people teams have had a positive impact and seem to be strengthening alignment and execution

Cons

tighter customer budgets and longer buying cycles creating challenges

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