Lots of growing pains, becoming too big and sluggish - Anonymous employee Vrbo Employee Review

3.0
Mar 31, 2014
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

There are a lot of great people who work here, the culture can be great and fun (lots of social opportunities), fun office space

Cons

- would rather hire externally from big name companies vs promote from within - good old boys club, upper management is primarily male and the women in leadership roles would rather network with the men then lead or mentor other women - depending on department not a lot of room for growth so it's easy to become stagnate - at times it seems like upper management has no clue what is going on at the mid level and below - very short sighted on product development, looking for quick gains (or catch up) vs longer term growth - married to the numbers, while analytics should drive the core of the business there are times when you have to invest in some non-measurable activities - benefits growing worse over time (higher cost of health benefits, paying for parking downtown)

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Pros

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Cons

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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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