A lot of promise but painful experience - Anonymous employee MongoDB Employee Review

3.0
11 Sept 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Fantastic team to work with, everyone clearly highly skilled. Promise of flexible work arrangements and work/life balance. Huge opportunity to work on a breakthrough product in rapidly changing industry. Very collegial coworkers and collaborative work environment.

Cons

I found the work/life balance to be mostly a sham. My immediate manager was absent 2-3 days per week, but expected to be involved in even routine decisions and would not respond to email. I was penalized on my reviews for leaving "early" after 8-9 hours and I frequently worked 1-2 hours from home every evening. Almost all requests to work from home were denied.

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