Silent firing instead of layoffs - Manager MongoDB Employee Review

2.0
6 Jun 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

At this point it's very hard to list any that aren't overshadowed by the cons. The snacks in the kitchen don't hurt and lunch three times a week doesn't hurt.

Cons

Last quarter's earnings pretty much say it all. Before I was ultimately terminated 1) my manager quit 2) my manager's manager quit and 3) my manager's -manager's- manager quit (C-level). Shortly after that, another C- level quit. This is a company with about 6,000 employees globally... When senior management and C levels abort... there's a reason. Toxic culture while attempting to perpetuate "core values" that senior leadership does not exemplify is a joke not lost on every employee. My team was reorged twice before 20% were fired. The toxicity that I speak of was not just internal to my team and org- I had amazing relationships with many individuals on multiple different teams. It is a cancer that has spread through the organization. Annual reviews prompt managers to place direct reports into one of three buckets to consider promotion: 1. does not meet expectations 2. meets expectations 3. exceeds expectations. I was told by senior leadership as well as coached to relay to my direct reports that 90% plus of all employees fall into the "meets expectations bucket" and as such, does not correlate to a promotion. Promotions happen for those cherry-picked individual few. Good luck to this company... the smart, hard-working, talented young people you've hired and are trying to retain with nothing in return will simply go elsewhere ...because we can.

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Development, Comp, shares, work from home

Cons

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Pros

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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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