Trivago

Trivago provides great learning opportunities and gives a lot of ownership and accountability. They also provide significant flexibility in multiple aspects for its employees, in terms of:

• Working hours
• Attending personal commitments and balancing work/private life
• Holidays
• A reasonable hybrid policy

The company also puts a lot of emphasis into making the workplace enjoyable through other benefits, such as a great campus, plenty of cultural events and amazing parties, supporting sporting events, providing free snacks & drinks in the office, budget for training, attending conferences, and regular monthly team events.

I've also always appreciated the company's general attitude & approach to learning through failure.

Above all, the main factor that has kept me for 10+ years at Trivago are the fantastic work colleagues. The vast majority of colleagues I've worked with over the years are incredibly smart, motivated, respectful, fun, and genuine people. On top of that, the high level of diversity throughout the company makes it even more enjoyable.

While changes are necessary to remain competitive in the travel industry, there have been times over the years where it became a bit exhausting and discouraging to have such frequent reshuffling of teams, projects, and strategies.

This varies a lot per team, but some parts of the company still feel as though they haven't fully transitioned away from more of a start-up mindset, where things are lacking a bit in terms of structure, processes, and documentation.