Tripadvisor reviews

A lot of management is misguided, and not well-versed in modern mobile application design. Oftentimes other teams or groups are skirting past user testing ideas before investing time and resources. Really inefficient and poor for building great product users want. Old ways of doing things, hard to change culture or streamline processes. Way too many meetings. "Spec" process and constant back and forth on approvals takes entirely too long. The "speed wins" mentality is antiquated and honestly I never felt like anyone I worked with believed in it. If it mattered, we wouldn't have had so many meetings or rounds of approvals. It took weeks and weeks of calls, meetings, and a lot of ineffiencies to even ship ONE small feature. Layers and layers of reporting structures. I oftentimes found myself in meetings with people wondering why they were even there. 20+ invitees and four people are talking while everyone else buried in their laptops trying to get work done. Some folks have been there too long and stuck in their ways. Clean house. Some poor work life balance at times. Some peers were working 16 hour days during crunch time on projects that never materialized. Emails being sent over the weekend. Raise and bonus structure was poor, and my reviews were very late.

High expectations, sometimes stressful because release is weekly. Since this office is a virtual office, communicating with HQ and always being in the loop is a challenge. Things move very quickly at TripAdvisor.