Advanced query: populate a document to show linked documents by replacement

[aogilvie]

Awesome Project BTW.

sample schema for a resume app or whatever:

// People
{
    name: { type: String, required: true },
    experience: [ Company ]
}

// Company
{
    name: { type: String, required: true },
    dateStart: { type: Number, required: true },
    dateFinish: { type: Number, required: false }
}

If I search an embedded doc in our People collection its easy:

{
    "experience.company.name": {$regex : "company name"} 
}

However... if I define my People Scheme like this because Company is never unique to People:

// People
{
    name: { type: String, required: true },
    experience: [ { type: Schema.Types.ObjectId, ref: 'Company' } ]
}

How can I now search in People for matches of Company name?
Advanced search will not run populate() on my query and I right? But I need to as stated here: http://mongoosejs.com/docs/populate.html

(I am also interested in Dynamic References as new from 4.5 and how this will affect searching)

[aogilvie]

Updated Title for accuracy.