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      Tripadvisor

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      Tripadvisor reviews

      3.5

      50% would recommend to a friend

      (1,372 total reviews)
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      Matt Goldberg

      24% approve of CEO

      22% positive business outlook

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      4.2

      Work/Life balance

      4.1

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.9

      Compensation and benefits

      3.7

      Culture & values

      3.2

      Career opportunities

      2.6

      Senior management

      Tripadvisor has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 1,372 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Tripadvisor employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.6 stars).

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      1K reviews
      2.0
      Feb 10, 2010

      Had High Expectations, Left Very Disappointed

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      Generally very smart people Tremendous Engineering team - hands down the best I have worked with Free lunch Hotel discounts Stable & successful business

      Cons

      I joined TripAdvisor with very high expectations having heard it was a great place to work, with exciting projects and a wonderful culture. I have to say I was disappointed on all fronts. There are a lot of well educated and bright people unfortunately the few that let it go to their heads create an atmosphere of micromanagement that is intolerable. I will echo earlier comments about making sure you know who you will be reporting too. "Speed Wins" is indeed the mantra but don't expect to put your stamp on much. Even minor decisions are dictated from the top and if you are caught in the middle of a disagreement between two senior managers the paralysis can be demoralizing. Taking risks and learning from failure is supposed to be part of the culture but I did not see much risk taking and there was a strange fear of any failure from most employees.

      3.0
      Feb 9, 2010

      It's got it it's ups and downs

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      The best thing about working at Tripadvisor is that for the most part you will be working with a LOT of very smart people. The people here are dedicated and are typically very good at what they do. Obviously the free lunch, foosball, keg, videogames doesn't hurt.

      Cons

      You will work hard at Tripadvisor. Don't be surprised by 50-60 hour weeks. Some of the management teams fail to realize what they are asking for sometimes. And when asking for help (as in more bodies to help produce), good luck as far as I can tell. The free lunch gets repetitive over time, but beggars can't be choosers.

      1.0
      Feb 2, 2010

      Increasingly poisonous atmosphere

      Anonymous employee
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      Pros

      - Some of the sharpest colleagues I've had anywhere - Lunch, snacks, freebies - Company is financially stable - Opportunity to work for the market leader in the space - Great Product - Great space (Travel)

      Cons

      - Senior management, especially the layer just beneath the CEO, deliberately cultivates an atmosphere of fear, insecurity and stress as the primary means of motivating employees. This is something they actually more or less admit to: they say that they don't want people to be "comfortable" in their jobs and miss no opportunity to publicly remind the organization about how pleased they are that certain employees have quit or were fired. - This same layer seems to devote much of its energies to political infighting. If your project happens to get caught in one of these fights, good luck. The tread marks from the bus will be imprinted on your forehead long before you realize what happened. - While senior management professes to believing in "speed-wins" and claim they want lower level managers to be "thought leaders" their micromanagement and top-down mandates are the single greatest impediments to both speed and innovation. - The CEO, while a brilliant product leader, seems unable or unwilling to intervene on his second tier managers.

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