Great culture. Employees are passionate about travel and like to create great travel experiences for the customers.
Good work-life balance. This is the first place I've worked where the executives and senior leaders genuinely advocate for using all of your vacation time to travel and see things.
People are smart and capable.
The company is caught between being an online travel agent and a technology company. They do not yet provide the perks of many more innovative tech companies: the compensation isn't as good, stock/equity is not part of the compensation structure, the benefits are not great, the engineering environment is not as open, innovation is slow and isn't encouraged as much, self-exploration isn't encouraged as much, etc.
It's also a fairly political environment where people pay too much attention to their political posture.
The company can improve customer service. Not just in the call centers, but how they think about making things simpler and better for customers, and driving their partners (the hotels, airlines, car rental companies, etc.) to be better, which provide notoriously poor customer experience.
This is for the senior position under the Trips org. The interview had 5 rounds: all technical coding and 1 system design. LeetCode questions included: * Merging intervals * Compress a string. This was a useless question I never saw, but I was able
A recruiter contacted me through LinkedIn and sent me an online assessment via email. I passed that and was contacted by the recruiter for the next steps. I spoke with him over the phone, and he asked which Friday would be better for an interview. We
It was taught. The interviewer was angry and difficult to understand on the phone. He was upset every time I asked him to repeat the question. The interview focused only on memory questions (Wikipedia questions instead of real use cases you have been
This is for the senior position under the Trips org. The interview had 5 rounds: all technical coding and 1 system design. LeetCode questions included: * Merging intervals * Compress a string. This was a useless question I never saw, but I was able
A recruiter contacted me through LinkedIn and sent me an online assessment via email. I passed that and was contacted by the recruiter for the next steps. I spoke with him over the phone, and he asked which Friday would be better for an interview. We
It was taught. The interviewer was angry and difficult to understand on the phone. He was upset every time I asked him to repeat the question. The interview focused only on memory questions (Wikipedia questions instead of real use cases you have been