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Cutting Edge, Overloaded, Great Team

Senior Software Developer
Former Employee
Worked at Agoda for 4 years
February 23, 2017
Bangkok, Thailand
5.0
RecommendsPositive Outlook
Pros
  • Flexibility: Routine is at a minimum. The time you go and leave the office is tolerated as long as you are doing good work.
  • Freedom: Managers are open to your ideas, so you are given the freedom to decide and implement.
  • Great people: It is hard to find good people, but at Agoda, it is hard to find bad people.
  • Helpful: Knowledge sharing is great. You will find help for anything very quickly, even if you need personal life help.
  • Cutting-edge tech: You will be learning and using the latest and greatest tech and tools everywhere.
  • Innovative: You will learn, create, and participate in innovative projects.
  • Challenging: High performance, high quality, high scalability, complicated systems – all lots of fun.
  • Big, successful, respected company.
  • Good pay and bonus.
  • Great location with easy access to everything you want.
  • Thailand: Wonderful place, wonderful culture, and wonderful people.
Cons
  • Developers are overloaded: Though developers are usually geeks, at Agoda you will do more than the normal developer tasks. There are lots of dashboards to monitor, data to analyze, reports to do, out-of-hours support, and lots of tools as well.

  • Cutting-edge tech: This is also a con, and it is why developers are not very technical. You are supposed to learn and apply new tech in one week! Plus, Agoda follows trends. I don't agree on following technology trends, as the online activity is made by teens who just get excited with new things that don't actually have real value.

Just don't take the cons seriously; they are nothing compared to how good the company is. I wouldn't leave if I didn't have to leave the country.

Advice to Management

You are great; be greater!

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