Q&A With MongoDB, Inc. Employees

Very flexible. Engineers have a lot of wiggle room on when to be available in the office. The teams are usually small so it's easy to arrange schedules that would overlap with your team mates.

Typically no problem to work from home one day a week, even for managers. Work hours are flexible, depending on meeting schedules.

It is easy to be completely "off" while taking vacation. Unlike my earlier job, I know I can just completely stop reading mail mark myself as unavailable for the days I'm away. Similarly, there is no pressure or expectation of availability outside office hours. To me, this is the most important aspect of being able separate life and work, and balance both.

The managers have a lot of trust in the engineers which encourages the engineers to be very honest about estimates and communicate candidly when more time is needed than the initial estimate ahead of time. Working extra hours is also not encouraged and majority of the engineers don't do it so there is no pressure to do so. It is not really required to be physically present in the office all the time so there is always the flexibility to work remotely and take care of personal errands (for example, sick kids/family, waiting for furniture to be delivered, etc)

We have some women engineers, and a couple who don't identify themselves as one of the traditional binary genders across different levels of seniority. It is hard to answer "it's diverse enough" without defining what is enough, but we are definitely looking to hire more non-cis male engineers.

For engineering, it's mostly technical questions and in most cases, language agnostic. We care more about the thought process and how the candidate solved the problem.

Typically once per year, at the beginning of the fiscal year. The amount of any raise is dependent on performance.

I worked in a different department, but often it seems they don't have it together and they're always stumbling to come up with solutions to things.

Depends on the team again. In my group we've all moved from Scrum to Kanban. Different teams with different release cycles however have different needs

It does depend on the team that one joins. Our team strives to hire an individual that will really add value to us, challenge us, and make us better people overall. My advice to you would be to really insist that you meet as much of the team as possible if you interview, so you can make up your own mind if you think they have an open and welcoming attitude