the Google of Travel with meh culture - Lead Role Rome2Rio Employee Review

3.0
Sep 2, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Personal travel supported, with some funding after the probation period Get insights into travel while trying to help people search for ways to get to their destination

Cons

Expectations are very unclear because everyone has different expectations of you Start out as a designer or software engineer and you can have a good career there, once you learn the complicated platform. Leadership team say they want to scale the company but the engineering culture is more of a narrow-minded, echo chamber, prone to re-inventing the wheel. Revenue is advertising based and the platform is free-to-use, so users are trading their identity and market behaviour for access;

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3.0
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CEO approval
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Pros

flexibility over the past years

Cons

salary is not up to date

1.0
Nov 29, 2024
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Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Standard working hours - Learning and development opportunities offered - Some long-term employees seem content in their roles

Cons

- Well below-market compensation - Leadership completely lacks product vision or strategy - Decisions made in a vacuum with no market understanding - Operates solely to generate monetary returns through lackluster revenue models - No real investment in growth or innovation - Zero product roadmap or coherent plan - Communication black holes between departments - Highly skilled employees undervalued and overlooked - Management fails to recognize and utilize talent This is a company that exists purely to maintain steady revenue streams via lacklustre, uninspired methods, and nothing else, with no real vision of its own. Leadership appears uninterested in product development or market strategy, focusing entirely on predictable financial returns. The most concerning aspect is management's inability to recognize and properly utilize skilled talent within their teams. While some employees have found their comfort zone and stayed long-term, many capable professionals quickly recognize the stagnant nature of the business, poor leadership, and below-market compensation.

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