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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

• 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.