Financially rewarding, but not a lot of fun. - Anonymous employee Tripadvisor Employee Review

3.0
Nov 25, 2013
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The company continues to grow and has products that put it ahead of the curve in the travel space. It continues to innovate and diversify it's products and has placed itself in a position to continue to do well. Compensation and benefits/perks can be very good.

Cons

It can be a very political environment, you need to have relationships with the right people to succeed in the long term. Often management is not concerned with how things are done, just that they get done. This trickles down the chain and employees are often viewed as resources to achieve a goal regardless of the impact to them. In many groups you either sink or swim and if you sink you can get thrown under the bus and can become the scape goat for a unsuccessful project or initiative. I also agree with a previous reviewer that noted that TripAdvisor is keenly aware of glassdoor reviews and strongly encourages current successful employees (those that just got promoted, had a good experience, etc) to write positive reviews on working at Trip. While there may be nothing technically wrong with this, the approach seems odd for a company based on unbiased reviews.

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Tripadvisor Response
12y
Thanks for your feedback. We're thrilled that you found TripAdvisor financially rewarding. We're also pleased that you think we build cool products that are ahead of the curve--we think so too! We're disappointed to hear that you didn't have a lot of fun since we think fun is a pretty important part of our culture (and part of what makes us a Boston Globe Top 100 Place to Work). As we grow, we're continuing to find ways to scale and prioritize projects to ensure that we maintain our focus on speed wins (which has helped us to create our cool products) but also keep work/life balance a key priority. We're glad that you've given us this feedback on Glassdoor since, as noted in a previous response, we're actively encouraging all employees to give us unbiased and honest feedback through this site.

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