Tripadvisor Employee Reviews about "senior management"

Pros

Work/life balance, salary package, benefits

Cons

Career progression, culture, values, senior management

Pros

....great office, work life balance

Cons

Senior management have issues with women, egotistical and chauvinistic environment. Breeding poor culture and toxic workplace.

Pros

Health Insurance, well being benefit reimbursement

Cons

“We believe in transparency” is one of their core value. This is what transparency means for Tripadvisor: Targets constantly changing and never explained to reps, people who have been working there for years still don’t know how their targets are calculated. I had 2 quarters where my target and pay-outs were not calculated correctly, still waiting for an answer and my money. Constantly changing and reshuffle of teams, people leaving or letting go without going through a proper process. The turnover is massive. Product is obsolete, no improvements or new products for the clients. Massively overpricing their products with no reason. Moreover, Hoteliers see their subscription price increased by 25% every year. In all the time I have worked there, what I saw is ambiguity. Nothing was clear or transparent. Be careful at some of the senior people there who are ready to do the trick in order to get a better bonus at your expenses. Zero jobs security. This company has gone through several massive workforce reductions over the last few years. Every year they close or reduce their business units letting people go. Their redundancy process is shocking. I have seen them treating people like garbage. Zero compassion towards their employers, letting go pregnant women and people on sick leave. During the last large cutting of staff Senior Management said everyone would take a 20% pay cut to help balance the books. After almost 1000 members of the staff were cut they reversed this decision and kept their salary at 100%. Nicely done. The company is going down. The CEO has no intention on investing to innovate, his priority is keeping the business running as a revenue machine as long as it lasts. Very old mind set and business structure from the Senior Management. Managers and Team Leader, please remember your working with humans, not numbers. Bye Bye Tripadvisor, hope you are going to really believe in transparency one day....

Pros

Beautiful office space Numerous committed employees who want to do their best

Cons

Fear and micromanagement are the name of the game at TRIP now; it wasn't always this way. Stress is off the charts on most teams due to poor management and inconsistent expectations. Zero strategic direction and constant changes by senior management make it impossible for employees to achieve success. Rather than taking ownership, senior management blames lower-level employees and lays off hundreds. Poor decisions on major projects: the "New" TripAdvisor failed, as did Instant Booking. And have you seen the new logo? Ugly and a waste of time, money and effort. Development and recognition of employees is nonexistent. Senior leaders hired in recent year are not respected by their teams because they are highly political and not respectful of their employees.

Pros

Stellar benefits, topped by the free lunches, incredible health insurance, and generous PTO.

Cons

Difficult to move up. The company has been constantly reorganizing as it tries to reposition itself in the market causing responsibilities to be constantly changing. Needham has a very high COL so unless you're senior management and can afford a $600k home, you'll have to settle for sitting in traffic an hour each way to work

Pros

- A great place to learn coding style conventions, scoping of large projects, and many other skills necessary for software engineering careers. - Free lunch. - Great place to network with engineers. Lots of startups in the area are founded by ex-TripAdvisor employees.

Cons

- Little opportunity for advancement, and company badly attempts to hide this by promising more opportunities 'if you work hard.' - Vague guidelines for how to properly utilize engineering rotation. - Extremely poor management of technical debt. - Outdated technological stack and senior management resistant to change. - Tolerance of management/groups that are uncommunicative and insular. - HR department is behind the times. - Very little standardization of technology between groups or even employees. Having employees configure their own dev boxes is a prime example that cost enormous amounts of productivity for minimal learning gains. - Code base is collapsing under its own weight. To their credit, they hired a senior engineer solely to mitigate this issue. When I left the company, morale was quite low. Not only are there very few senior roles available, it is not attractive to take a senior role because the technologies and design philosophy are falling behind industry standards, hobbling ability to jump to other companies or even to change position within the company.

Pros

Colleagues, environment, perks, office space, parking and the occasional staff party. Good for the short term or as a stop gap.

Cons

It completely lost it's culture due to Senior Management not listening and lacking compassion. Autonomy and decision making comes from the US. Lack of development and career progression.

Pros

Just like others have written, the free food, snacks everywhere, fun events like Halloween party, great gym and amazing office space. So basically...the perks The feeling that you are working at a "cool place"

Cons

Senior Management seems out of touch with the majority of the staff. The motto of "Speed Wins" is spoken about all topics, all projects, but not all projects are the same and "Speed Wins" does not always make sense The constant feeling of stress due to unrealistic timelines.