Software Developer • Former Employee
Pros: FlipKey, or TAVR, as it has become, is a fairly decent place to work, offering:
* Good pay, relative to the Boston area
* Outstanding benefits
* High traffic, big data website presents interesting challenges
* B2B, B2C, and Internal web interfaces allow varied experience
* Lots of very experienced developers who share knowledge freely
* Exceptionally intelligent, very friendly people across the organization
Cons: - Execs have little interaction with individual contributors, and don't understand how to motivate them.
- Focus is completely on ROI and parity with competitors, not on building great products.
- The tech stack is stale, employing lots of old and lesser-used tech (like Prototype.js).
- Colleagues are uninspired due to stale tech and boring organizational goals.
- There's little positive reinforcement for putting in extra effort.
- Due to the above, the codebase has been hacked together, with high technical debt.
- There is virtually no career development, in a shrinking team with fixed leadership.