monolith application made by interns fresh out of university - Software Developer Mews Employee Review

2.0
Nov 28, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

The third Wednesday of each month is free, and you can change it for another day. They don't pay badly, flexible hours. They don't use email much, almost everything is through slack

Cons

I don't know where to start the bad things about this company at the development level...The level of development is mediocre. They don't have any Microsoft MVPs nor do they have much experience in Azure. This leads to an even bigger problem... they are faithful defenders of managing a monolith for the entire application instead of making a system in microservices, making the application very slow in all aspects. They never let you see Azure, in fact if you want to learn Azure this is NOT your company. Any consulting firm learns much better and has better code quality. You can't use linq, you have to use a library called "funcsharp" that someone made back in the day and is the anti-pattern in every sense. Run away from that. There is an IT department that is in charge of managing everything, which is why it is impossible to extract it to microservices because to do so everyone would have to know about IT and they don't feel like having a multidisciplinary culture. In the middle of 2023 they are testing Azure Services Bus and continue to defend that it is not the optimal tool, that it is best to continue using a monolith with a number of tables, classes in a solution in visual studio that there is no way to get it... The CTO has no experience in real systems, it is his first or second job and it is believed that the monolith is the best solution, which is why it is impossible, actively or passively, to change the way of working. They say they work in Aguile but it is not true, the tasks are not estimated or refined, absolutely nothing is done, they simply give you a semi-empty tour ticket with a title... honestly it is not worth entering this company unless you are desperate. If you want to stagnate technologically for life, work on a project where there are 100 people playing at the same time, where you don't work in aguile and then no company wants to hire you, go ahead.

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Mews Response
2y
Thank you for your review, sounds like you have not had the greatest experience here at Mews. That does happen at times, we are experiencing high growth and learning how to manage our remote-first team members better, but we do at times get it wrong along that journey. When we promoted our current CPTO, one of the first things he made as his mission is to move away from a monolithic structure and move to micro-services. So this is definitely a work in progress and our 300+ strong R&D team are excited about the direction we have set. Wishing you the best of luck in your career. Matt/CEO

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5.0
Jul 6, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The best corporate experience I’ve ever had. People are easy to engage with, you’re always able to go to anyone in the business for questions or requests, and there is a lot of opportunity for immense visibility (in a good way!). It’s a rare experience to feel so critical, valued, and individualized in a company and I have felt that every day over the last year. Truly a wonderful company with some really great people.

Cons

Can be really fast paced at times, you have to be willing to be self sufficient and a good getter mentality to handle ambiguous circumstances at times. With time zone challenges, you also have to be adaptable and quick for certain requests.

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Mews Response
1w
Thank you for such a thoughtful review. It’s wonderful to hear you’ve felt so valued, visible and able to make an impact over the past year. That’s the experience we want people to have at Mews. You’re right that our pace calls for proactivity and ownership, and working across time zones adds another layer of complexity to navigate. We’re glad that’s felt like a worthy trade-off.
3.0
Jul 20, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

there are awesome people that work at mews!

Cons

- tons of internally meetings every single day that take away from reps being able to do their job - lots of internal trainings as well - processes were constantly changing - high quotas that are impossible to hit so you will not see much $ in commission

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