diff --git a/docker-compose.yml b/docker-compose.yml
index 2be2ba8d08..49fcf65086 100644
--- a/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/docker-compose.yml
@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ services:
     environment:
       - PORT=$QUESTION_SVC_PORT
       - DB_URI=$QUESTION_SVC_DB_URI
+    depends_on:
+      - mongodb-question
   
   user-service:
     build:
@@ -28,3 +30,26 @@ services:
       - JWT_SECRET=$JWT_SECRET
       - EMAIL_ADDRESS=$EMAIL_ADDRESS
       - EMAIL_PASSWORD=$EMAIL_PASSWORD
+    depends_on:
+      - mongodb-user
+
+  mongodb-question:
+    image: mongo:latest
+    ports:
+      - 27017:27017
+    volumes:
+      - mongodb_question_data:/data/db
+      - ./init-mongo-scripts/init-mongo-questions.sh:/docker-entrypoint-initdb.d/init-mongo-questions.sh:ro
+
+
+  mongodb-user:
+    image: mongo:latest
+    ports:
+      - 27018:27017
+    volumes:
+      - mongodb_user_data:/data/db
+      - ./init-mongo-scripts/init-mongo-user.sh:/docker-entrypoint-initdb.d/init-mongo-user.sh:ro
+
+volumes:
+  mongodb_question_data:
+  mongodb_user_data:
diff --git a/init-mongo-scripts/init-mongo-questions.sh b/init-mongo-scripts/init-mongo-questions.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..51b6240ff6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/init-mongo-scripts/init-mongo-questions.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,129 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+mongosh <<EOF
+use question_service
+
+db.questions.insertMany([
+  {
+    title: "Reverse a String",
+    description: "Write a function that reverses a string. The input string is given as an array of characters s. You must do this by modifying the input array in-place with O(1) extra memory.",
+    category: "Strings, Algorithms",
+    complexity: "easy"
+  },
+  {
+    title: "Linked List Cycle Detection",
+    description: "Implement a function to detect if a linked list contains a cycle.",
+    category: "Data Structures, Algorithms",
+    complexity: "easy"
+  },
+  {
+    title: "Roman to Integer",
+    description: "Given a roman numeral, convert it to an integer.",
+    category: "Algorithms",
+    complexity: "easy"
+  },
+  {
+    title: "Add Binary",
+    description: "Given two binary strings a and b, return their sum as a binary string.",
+    category: "Bit Manipulation, Algorithms",
+    complexity: "easy"
+  },
+  {
+    title: "Fibonacci Number",
+    description: "Given n, calculate F(n) which is the Fibonacci number.",
+    category: "Recursion, Algorithms",
+    complexity: "easy"
+  },
+  {
+    title: "Implement Stack using Queues",
+    description: "Implement a last-in-first-out (LIFO) stack using only two queues.",
+    category: "Data Structures",
+    complexity: "easy"
+  },
+  {
+    title: "Combine Two Tables",
+    description: "Write a SQL solution to combine two tables, reporting the first name, last name, city, and state of each person.",
+    category: "Databases",
+    complexity: "easy"
+  },
+  {
+    title: "Repeated DNA Sequences",
+    description: "Given a string s that represents a DNA sequence, return all the 10-letter-long sequences that occur more than once.",
+    category: "Algorithms, Bit Manipulation",
+    complexity: "medium"
+  },
+  {
+    title: "Course Schedule",
+    description: "You are given an array prerequisites, return true if you can finish all courses.",
+    category: "Data Structures, Algorithms",
+    complexity: "medium"
+  },
+  {
+    title: "LRU Cache Design",
+    description: "Design and implement an LRU (Least Recently Used) cache.",
+    category: "Data Structures",
+    complexity: "medium"
+  },
+  {
+    title: "Longest Common Subsequence",
+    description: "Given two strings, return the length of their longest common subsequence.",
+    category: "Strings, Algorithms",
+    complexity: "medium"
+  },
+  {
+    title: "Rotate Image",
+    description: "You are given an n x n 2D matrix representing an image, rotate the image by 90 degrees (clockwise).",
+    category: "Arrays, Algorithms",
+    complexity: "medium"
+  },
+  {
+    title: "Airplane Seat Assignment Probability",
+    description: "Return the probability that the nth person gets his own seat on a plane.",
+    category: "Brainteaser",
+    complexity: "medium"
+  },
+  {
+    title: "Validate Binary Search Tree",
+    description: "Given the root of a binary tree, determine if it is a valid binary search tree (BST).",
+    category: "Data Structures, Algorithms",
+    complexity: "medium"
+  },
+  {
+    title: "Sliding Window Maximum",
+    description: "You are given an array of integers, return the maximum sliding window for each window of size k.",
+    category: "Arrays, Algorithms",
+    complexity: "hard"
+  },
+  {
+    title: "N-Queen Problem",
+    description: "Given an integer n, return all distinct solutions to the n-queens puzzle.",
+    category: "Algorithms",
+    complexity: "hard"
+  },
+  {
+    title: "Serialize and Deserialize a Binary Tree",
+    description: "Design an algorithm to serialize and deserialize a binary tree.",
+    category: "Data Structures, Algorithms",
+    complexity: "hard"
+  },
+  {
+    title: "Wildcard Matching",
+    description: "Given an input string and a pattern, implement wildcard pattern matching with support for '?' and '*'.",
+    category: "Strings, Algorithms",
+    complexity: "hard"
+  },
+  {
+    title: "Chalkboard XOR Game",
+    description: "Alice and Bob take turns erasing exactly one number from a chalkboard, the bitwise XOR of the elements decides the winner.",
+    category: "Brainteaser",
+    complexity: "hard"
+  },
+  {
+    title: "Trips and Users",
+    description: "Write a SQL solution to compute the cancellation rate of requests with unbanned users for a given date range.",
+    category: "Databases",
+    complexity: "hard"
+  }
+]);
+
+print("20 questions inserted.");
+EOF
diff --git a/init-mongo-scripts/init-mongo-user.sh b/init-mongo-scripts/init-mongo-user.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..cc5492445c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/init-mongo-scripts/init-mongo-user.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+mongosh <<EOF
+use user_service
+// password: admin
+db.usermodels.insertOne({
+  username: "admin",
+  email: "admin@gmail.com",
+  password: "\$2b\$10\$Znbj5qwkQymg2Yk1asb2zO3kyhS.2UP6Vv/oJE1DsBmyLnZhqG90.",
+  isAdmin: true
+});
+print("Admin user created.");
+
+// password: notadmin
+db.usermodels.insertOne({
+  username: "notadmin",
+  email: "notadmin@gmail.com",
+  password: "\$2b\$10\$LgHKho0/lAJz.qQUHFyXEu/39v86mhu3ILaeWFIIk7He90CMQZvYu",
+  isAdmin: false
+});
+print("Notadmin user created.");
+EOF