I'm trying to get the hang of using Mongoose promises with the async/await functionality of Node.js. When my function printEmployees is called I want to save the list of employees which are queried by the orderEmployees function. While, the console.log statement inside orderEmployees returns the expected query, the console.log inside of printEmployees returns undefined, suggesting that I'm not returning the promise correctly.

I'm new to promises so entirely possible that I'm not correctly understanding the paradigm... any help is much appreciated.

  printEmployees: async(company) => {

    var employees = await self.orderEmployees(company);

    // SECOND CONSOLE.LOG

    console.log(employees);

  },



  orderEmployees: (companyID) => {

    User.find({company:companyID})

    .exec()

    .then((employees) => {

      // FIRST CONSOLE.LOG

      console.log(employees);

      return employees;

    })

    .catch((err) => {

      return 'error occured';

    });

  },