Good for remote juniors, but not a place to grow - Mobile Engineer Desquared Employee Review

2.0
26 Nov 2025
Recommend
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Pros

This company offers the advantage of fully remote work, which is ideal if you want flexibility and prefer working from home. It can serve as a stepping stone for junior engineers seeking practical experience before moving on. The development process also follows clear stages, analysis, development, QA, and public release, making it easier to understand how projects evolve through each phase.

Cons

The work environment is weighed down by intense micromanagement, where you have to constantly justify every decision and plan you make for each feature to your superiors. What makes this frustrating is that many of these managers have never actually used the technologies they ask you to implement, yet insist on their approach. There is little real seniority or strong technical leadership, meaning guidance is scarce and many decisions feel disconnected from practical realities. The business and tech teams often clash, demanding better results without providing realistic deadlines, resources, or clear priorities. There is significant psychological pressure to meet KPIs with very limited support or mentoring to help achieve them. When issues arise, blame falls squarely on individuals, while successes are broadly attributed to the whole team, which can feel demotivating. Engineers bear the brunt of the workload, often doing tasks that should be handled by business or design teams, which leads to burnout and unclear boundaries around responsibilities. Adding to the strain, some managers demonstrate dismissive and disrespectful behavior, intensifying stress. Another important drawback is the compensation. Salaries are quite low, especially considering that developers handle many different parts of the project, including responsibilities that other teams (like business and design) should take on to complete a feature. This imbalance, combined with the workload and lack of support, makes the overall situation challenging.

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2.0
14 Apr 2026
Anonymous employee
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Pros

room for autonomy, ownership, decent wage,

Cons

Just an agency, Zero onboarding, you work on your own, you almost never meet your teammates, indifferent products, no benefits at all

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4.0
22 Sept 2025
Recommend
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Business outlook

Pros

As a first job I gained a lot of experience, I worked on big projects since the agency has some of the biggest players on the Greek market and now some internationally (COSMOTE, NBG etc). Also big plus it is fully remote, pays good money and the almost all colleagues are some really good people.

Cons

After a certain amount of time you reach a growth limit due to the nature of the agency workflow. In one hand clients always have the upper hand in what is the final products and how much effort you put in things and on the other managers will not be satisfied with the quality of what you offer, so the balance is always off to who you try to satisfy. Also a lot of times since you are always the third party to the client you have to prove your self every time and sometime they still don't accept you and that become tiring after a certain point.

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