Great team, but extremely underpaid - Software Engineer Vrbo Employee Review

3.0
Sep 27, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

- Excellent tech stack to work with (from React, Node to Scala, Akka and so on), CI/CD - Great team in London, everyone committed to doing high quality work to deliver value to customers - Caring management, encouraging and enabling the team to be vocal, collaborative - opportunity to work, travel across different cities in the world

Cons

- Austin gets paid, talks the talk, while teams outside of Austin are the ones that actually deliver value. - Because the company is predominantly in the USA, product and engineering teams there have no understanding of what local relevance means. All they know is the USA, all they have seen is how Americans use products, they do not comprehend what having a Global company means. - The team in London is extremely underpaid, compared to the market

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Pros

HomeAway technology stack has come a long way. One of the most appealing things about working here is the fact that you get to work with cutting edge technology. In addition, the engineering team are super smart, so working here is a great networking opportunity too.

Cons

Company is getting pretty big, and if you end up on the wrong team, you may find it that it is difficult for you to be impactful.

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Vrbo Response
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Thank you for taking the time to leave a thoughtful review. We love a good tech stack as much as the next tech company and it’s great to hear you enjoy working on ours. Our Data Science and Engineering teams are so important to the success of HomeAway. You’re right though, we are growing rapidly. If someone finds themselves on a team that doesn’t quite feel right, we highly encourage internal movement and having a conversation with your manager.
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