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.
Had one telephonic round followed by an onsite interview. Had five interviews with the team. I met with: * Two Senior Software Development Engineers (SDEs) * Two SDE IIs * The Director The developers focused on technical skills, including asking
I submitted my resume in early December, and after that, I got the phone interview set up a week later. Then, I received an onsite invitation after three days. I went to the onsite in early January and received the offer three days later. The process
I met them on campus for an on-campus, in-person interview, and it went well. I was contacted about a week later to be flown out to Bellevue, WA, for a round of interviews at their headquarters. I had three different one-hour interviews: * The fi
Had one telephonic round followed by an onsite interview. Had five interviews with the team. I met with: * Two Senior Software Development Engineers (SDEs) * Two SDE IIs * The Director The developers focused on technical skills, including asking
I submitted my resume in early December, and after that, I got the phone interview set up a week later. Then, I received an onsite invitation after three days. I went to the onsite in early January and received the offer three days later. The process
I met them on campus for an on-campus, in-person interview, and it went well. I was contacted about a week later to be flown out to Bellevue, WA, for a round of interviews at their headquarters. I had three different one-hour interviews: * The fi