Pros: - A great place to learn coding style conventions, scoping of large projects, and many other skills necessary for software engineering careers. - Free lunch. - Great place to network with engineers. Lots of startups in the area are founded by ex-TripAdvisor employees.

Cons: - Little opportunity for advancement, and the company badly attempts to hide this by promising more opportunities 'if you work hard.' - Vague guidelines for how to properly utilize the engineering rotation. - Extremely poor management of technical debt. - Outdated technological stack, and senior management is resistant to change. - Tolerance of management/groups that are uncommunicative and insular. - The HR department is behind the times. - Very little standardization of technology between groups or even employees. Having employees configure their own dev boxes is a prime example that costs enormous amounts of productivity for minimal learning gains. - The codebase is collapsing under its own weight. To their credit, they hired a senior engineer solely to mitigate this issue. When I left the company, morale was quite low. Not only are there very few senior roles available, it is not attractive to take a senior role because the technologies and design philosophy are falling behind industry standards, hobbling the ability to jump to other companies or even to change position within the company.

Pros: Everyone here at FlipKey is fun to work with. I work on the engineering team, and everyone gets along. Younger engineers are guided by the senior engineers. Everyone is knowledgeable and willing to help. The benefits we get from being part of TripAdvisor are solid. Great office culture.

Cons: Salaries are average and not tied to performance. There is no recognition when someone goes above and beyond. There is zero direction from management. The avenue for career advancement is narrow, if it exists at all. Lately, we just follow our competitors with no focus on innovation.

Pros: Friendly Environment Less Stress Great Benefits Opportunity to learn more skills WFH

Cons: Constant re-org. Travel down due to Covid.