Trivago

• flexible working hours
• office

Low salary compared to the domestic market average; no salary negotiation; performance metrics reflect relationships rather than value contribution; career progression is only possible with a lateral move; bonus paid in penny stocks.

Low-skilled peers; high turnover; shrinking institutional knowledge; difficulties in attracting senior/high-skilled people; lack of industry-relevant open-source projects.

Slow pace; understaffed teams; critical projects rarely progress from early stages and are systematically left unmaintained/underdeveloped until they cause disaster; agile methodology abused as a means for being reckless; lack of technical long-term vision and industry best practices.

Legacy on-prem data stack; incredibly high amount of technical debt; daily firefighting; efforts to modernize are actively shot down.

High amount of politics; little trust in individual contributors; inexperienced mid-level management; Machiavellian domain leads; dysfunctional cross-domain collaboration; high overhead and inefficiencies due to inability to transform business goals into technical solutions; constant restructuring packaged as a learning process.

Company culture turning into a front to attract hip, young, cheap, and inexperienced people seeking visas; no diversity in leadership.

Product UX & user value lags behind competition; survives only due to high marketing spend; dying product/market.