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Great business, 'OK' Engineering culture

Software Engineer II
Former Employee
Worked at Tripadvisor for 4 years
July 2, 2014
Newton, Massachusetts
4.0
RecommendsPositive OutlookApproves of CEO
Pros

Many promotion and raise opportunities if you do great work.

Many smart people to learn from.

The product is getting better and better.

Business is doing very well.

You will learn many interesting things about running a large website.

Company favors incremental changes with metrics and emphasizes speed to market.

Cons

Nearly impossible to do an overhaul of a major page or a component because it's so metrics-driven. But it does happen sometimes if the person pitching the idea is persuasive enough.

Related to the previous point, it's hard for designers and engineers to innovate and get the company to invest on various ideas, so they keep those to themselves. This is reflected by a low hackweek participation rate and low activities in the open-source community and local tech events.

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