Toxic leadership - Team Lead Engineering MongoDB Employee Review

2.0
Aug 4, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

- salary - benefits - product image

Cons

- toxic leadership and bro culture - feedback used as controlling mechanism - no wlb as lead in engineering - „kill the messenger“, only good messages attitude - manger behaved aggressively and threatened when I put in my resignation - work on weekend 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 and was made unnecessary unhealthy and pressuring.

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5.0
May 21, 2026
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Pros

- Great culture that scaled - Staff are smart, compassionate, organized, and friendly - Product quality is good

Cons

- None really, I left to work in a different field

2.0
Mar 23, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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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.

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