monday.com Innovation & Technology Culture 2026

monday.com Employee Perspectives

Pausing a product roadmap for an entire month to point 700 engineers at a single goal is a significant structural shift, but it transformed monday.com. Andrew sits down with VP of R&D Sergei Liakhovetsky to uncover how fixing core infrastructure and adopting a cell-based architecture paved the way for platform scale. Sergei details the exact framework his leadership team used during their 30-day pause to launch user solutions while maintaining a strict zero-bureaucracy policy. The conversation also explores the new realities of reliability as platforms transition from being CPU-bound to heavily GPU-bound under the weight of automated agents.

Sergei Liakhovetsky, VP, R&D, Infrastructure and Foundations

From the article: How monday.com paused its roadmap for 30 days to hit AI escape velocity

Seeking to move beyond top-down mandates for artificial intelligence, monday.com dedicated an entire month to an internal 'AI challenge' that invited employees from every department—not just engineering—to build their own tools. The result was a 'gusher' of productivity-boosting ideas, ranging from automated customer sentiment trackers to AI-driven resource allocators, proving that the most transformative software solutions often come from the people closest to the daily grind.

Daniel Lereya, Chief Product and Technology Officer

From the article: How software maker Monday.com’s ‘AI Month’ unlocked a gusher of employee-generated ideas

monday.com Employee Reviews

We are at the cutting edge of everything happening with AI, and it’s transforming the way our customers collaborate. As CSMs, we aren't just helping with software implementation; we act as an extension of our clients and serve as consulting partners during major organizational transformations. We get to be thought leaders helping them demystify use cases and build a tech stack that supports their future growth. There is a lot of rapid learning happening every day to ensure our clients stay relevant.

Brad Wisselman, Principal Customer Success Manager

We’re in the middle of a massive AI shift. What stood out to me is that monday isn’t just talking about AI—they’re actually investing in it in a real way, internally and externally, which gives us the opportunity to become true partners to our customers as they figure out how to drive value from it.