Some decent engineers and decent pay, but management is the worst. - Senior DevOps Engineer MrQ Employee Review

2.0
7 May 2026
Recommend
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Pros

- Genuinely, they have some of the best engineers that I've ever worked with. - They pay well. - Savvas is actually a decent person, too, which is nice.

Cons

- AWFUL management of the engineering team. Feedback is sparse and last-minute. - There's a massive reliance on AI, and some of the engineering team are so unskilled that they can't be called engineers. - Engineering Management completely missed the point of what 'Radical Candour' actually is. - The probation process is an utter joke. The engineering team needs to be completely restructured if you want this process to work fairly. - Whilst Savvas cares, other leaders don't care, and I genuinely don't know how they sleep at night with their choices. - You can't just play with people's lives and careers. - You need to invest massively in inclusivity. Neurodivergent people do not feel safe within the engineering team. - You invest heavily in Product people, but some of them literally just waste company time and money. - HR/People leaders aren't much better than the Engineering leaders.

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MrQ Response
1mo
Thank you for taking the time to share this — we know it takes courage to leave honest feedback, especially when the experience hasn't been a positive one. We're glad the quality of the engineers around you and the compensation felt right. But we want to be clear: the concerns you've raised around management, feedback, and inclusivity — particularly around neurodivergent colleagues feeling unsafe — are things we take seriously and don't want to brush past. Every person who joins MrQ deserves to be treated with respect and empathy, full stop. If that hasn't been the experience, that's something we genuinely want to understand and do better on. We appreciate your honesty, and we're sorry your time here didn't reflect the environment we want to build.

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3.0
20 Oct 2025
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Pros

friendly colleagues that makes you feel part of the team

Cons

growth plans are a bit low

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MrQ Response
1mo
Good to hear your perspective on your time here — and appreciate you being part of the Qrew. Nice to see the focus on the team and the people side coming through, especially feeling supported and part of the group day to day — that’s something that really matters. We also hear your feedback around growth opportunities. As we continue to scale, making sure there are clear and meaningful paths for development is something we’re always working on. Thanks again for sharing your experience.
5.0
15 May 2026
Recommend
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Pros

The culture here is the real deal — not the kind that gets plastered on a careers page and forgotten. People are smart, kind, and genuinely invested in each other's success. I've worked at places that talk about "collaboration" and places that actually live it; this is firmly the latter. Leadership is transparent in a way I haven't seen elsewhere. Roadmaps, financials, the reasoning behind hard calls — it all gets shared openly, and questions in all-hands actually get answered, not deflected. When priorities shift, you hear about the why, which makes it much easier to get behind. Growth opportunities are real. I've been given room to stretch into areas outside my original scope, with managers who treat development conversations as ongoing rather than a once-a-year checkbox. Promotions feel earned and well-calibrated. Compensation and benefits are competitive, and the flexibility around remote/hybrid work is treated as a default, not a perk you have to negotiate for. PTO is respected — people actually take it and don't get pinged on Slack. The work itself is interesting. Hard problems, modern tooling, and engineering decisions are made by the people closest to the code. There's a strong bias toward shipping while still investing in quality.

Cons

Honestly, the main downside is that growth has brought some growing pains — processes that worked at a smaller size are being rebuilt, and it occasionally shows. But leadership is aware and actively iterating, which is more than I can say for most places.

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MrQ Response
1mo
Thank you for writing this so thoughtfully — it's a really generous review and we appreciate you taking the time. Everything you've described — the transparency, the genuine collaboration, the space to grow — is something we work hard to protect, so it's great to hear it's coming through in practice and not just on paper. Your advice to management is well taken too. Scaling without losing what makes a place special is one of the harder challenges, and it's something we think about a lot. We won't pretend the growing pains aren't real — they are — but the intention to keep iterating and getting it right is there. Really glad you're part of the team. Reviews like this one remind us why it matters.
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