Eighteen applications into my search, Mews offered me a Senior PM role: €96k base, equity, fully remote from Amsterdam.
I almost took it. The interviews were very good. The hiring manager returned again and again to ownership, to giving PMs real authority over the roadmap, to moving fast without the slowness of a big company. After every round I felt positive. The equity conversation was clear, the base was the number I wanted, and remote work meant I did not have to move. I was close to signing without thinking much more about it. Before I signed, I spent two evenings on LinkedIn looking for people who had been PMs at Mews in the last two years. I found two of them and sent short, direct messages, saying I had an offer and asking for fifteen minutes. Both answered inside one day, which already told me something. What they said was too similar to ignore. The roadmap was rewritten about every six weeks, not because the market changed but because senior leadership kept reversing their own decisions. Two PMs had left in the quarter before my offer, and neither departure was planned. One of them told me she spent her last month rebuilding a spec she had already delivered once. That detail stayed with me more than the rest. I ↓