Pros: It's simply fun to work here. The tasks are difficult, but you have enough freedom to bring in your own creative solutions. There is virtually no top-down distribution of tasks. Many benefits that you get here: * Food * Drinks * Events * Sports groups Super opportunities to develop yourself career-wise.

Cons: None found yet.

Pros: Lately, only the flexibility to work on your own time. Good for parents. Nice people. You can make friends for life. Work-life balance is good. You won't be working late often, and you can have your life besides work.

Cons: Very low salary, and they say they are "looking into it" for many years. They increased people's salaries by x% last year for the good work they did in 2021, except if you were going to leave the company at the beginning of 2022. I've talked with at least two other people in this situation. What a shame! Well done! No real benefits as it used to have: * No Trivago on Tour (company-wide travel, ok during corona times). * No "working in": We used to be able to work from Palma de Mallorca or Leipzig, but since the pandemic began, we don't have another office than Düsseldorf. Instead of stopping this benefit, why don't they increase salaries or give another benefit in exchange? * No Trivago experiences anymore. We used to have things like walking the "Camiño de Santiago", guided visits to a colleague's hometown, etc. :( * The awesome campus they advertised for years worldwide is now a shared building, and we can't bring people from outside anymore to get to know the building (even after corona), which was awesome and helped Trivago conquer new employees after their visit. * The first time we got a "nice" Christmas gift, and even that they can't do well anymore. Idea: Let's buy everyone an Apple Homepod Mini. They are going to like it... I mean, only the ones that have an iPhone, but that is fine, right? Right? :facepalm: (How will you keep a company running if you can't buy a freaking gift that everyone can use???). They don't help you with a single cent to pay your electricity or internet bill, even though they are saving a lot from us working from home. And they will also not give you any budget for you to get your home office ready. Good luck. * It is impossible to grow if you don't want to move from engineering to management positions. * Unclear future: You work many months on a project, and out of the blue, they decide not to move forward with it, even though a full team worked on it and the project is 95% ready to go. #LackOfFocus It is very sad to see a company that was fun and with so much potential lose its purpose. They are losing their biggest asset: their people. It is unbelievable the number of talents leaving Trivago that have been with them for more than 4, 5, 7, 10 years. Today, I'm just really upset with many things that happened in the last months. The total disregard is an enormous lack of respect and consideration for people that went above and beyond. I wish you can look inside and fix those mistakes. It is going to be better for the employees and the future of the company. Cheers.

Pros: Trivago offers nothing that you can't find elsewhere at another tech company if you put in some effort, but with more cons than I have ever seen anywhere, to date. But they do have snacks, coffee, beer, video games, and junk.

Cons: - I heard more unprofessional and openly hostile gossip from people about their coworkers in my 6 months there than I did in grade school. - Team leads and heads of department in engineering were largely incompetent (in my experience) and engaging in what I'd call the workplace equivalent of social climbing. - There was little to no teamwork; more of a "tear other people down so they can't look better than me" attitude among more than 50% of the people I encountered. - The tech stack is really, really old. Code was ported over to new versions and frameworks seemingly without any real review or rewrite (maybe ever), or actual thought to a logical systems architecture. In 6 months, I don't think I ever heard anyone mention the concept of having a system architecture. - You will be a code monkey. 99% of the time, you will not have any input into what you are building or why, or maybe never even know what ends up happening to it. It is boring. - I cannot really say I learned anything of substance or grew as an engineer there, except what to look for as early red flags when interviewing with companies in the future. - The "core values" they workshop you to death on are not actually embodied in how people conduct themselves or what behavior is tolerated. - Lots of bureaucracy; it is a "startup culture" only in the sense that they have a Nintendo Wii and snacks, which are actually the least important parts of that whole culture. - As a collective group (of course, there are always a few exceptions), there were very few people I would describe as talented or hard-working. - All that considered, there really isn't enough money in the world to make it worth it, especially if you are considering moving to Germany for it. But if you are wondering, the pay is not very competitive. I moved there because I wanted to work there and be in Germany, and I bought their culture advertising, which was false in all the ways that actually matter. The salary thing was mostly just icing on the cake of reasons to leave.