Company profile
MongoDB
MongoDB makes the document database used by a huge swath of application developers, plus the fully managed Atlas service which now drives most of the company's revenue. Interviews emphasise databases, replication, and consensus - expect Raft, sharding, and storage-engine questions even for non-database-team roles.
Interview process
With roughly 6K employees and headquarters in New York, US, MongoDB hires through dedicated recruiting teams, and loops at companies of this size tend to be structured, with each round scored against a written rubric. Interviewers are usually trained engineers and managers rather than the hiring manager alone, and candidates for backend engineer, devops engineer, site reliability engineer roles typically face separate rounds for core skills, design or case thinking, and behavioral fit. Open a role below for the questions and focus areas specific to that function.
Questions and process by role
MongoDB hires across several engineering and product functions, and the loop shifts with each one. Open a role for the reported questions, the round-by-round focus, and a salary band for that function.
- Backend engineer
Backend engineer interview questions and process at MongoDB.
engineering - DevOps engineer
DevOps engineer interview questions and process at MongoDB.
infrastructure - Site reliability engineer
Site reliability engineer interview questions and process at MongoDB.
infrastructure - Database engineer
Database engineer interview questions and process at MongoDB.
engineering - Developer relations engineer
Developer relations engineer interview questions and process at MongoDB.
engineering - Elixir engineer
Elixir engineer interview questions and process at MongoDB.
engineering - Embedded engineer
Embedded engineer interview questions and process at MongoDB.
engineering - Engineering manager
Engineering manager interview questions and process at MongoDB.
engineering
Salary signal
Approximate senior median pay for MongoDB's core roles, anchored to New York and modeled from BLS, ONS, and Levels.fyi reference medians. These are market bands for the role and city, not MongoDB offers. Open a role for the full city-by-city table.
Employee reviews
MongoDB holds a 3.9 Glassdoor rating. External review scores are directional signals. Treat them as context alongside the specific team, location, level, and hiring manager you are interviewing with.
Glassdoor 3.9