Pros
Agoda people are very engaged at work. From very top management to junior members are enthusiastic at taking time to understand business and people, test assumptions through experiments and measure them systematically. Agoda people across seniority levels also understand numbers and how to interpret/make use of them well, and do not work in silo at all. Agoda culture is well-maintained to exemplify entrepreneurial dynamics, so the hierarchy is flat. It is encouraged to reach out and work shoulder to shoulder across teams from marketing to finance to product, not just passing the requests and wait for other teams to respond like in some corporate culture.
Agoda pay rate is attractive enough to attract talents from globally, not to mention other benefits or perks like health insurance. Employees are diverse in terms of nationalities (more than 80), background industries, and minorities, very much like the atmosphere in San Francisco Bay Area where I worked before.
Cons
Since Agoda is in a fast-paced and sometimes cutthroat industry, work here can change abruptly to adapt to daily changes in the market. This results in some work being tossed away quickly and working hours for some people can be long. Agoda is not a place for people who prefer routine or predictable jobs.
