Agoda reviews

Agoda encourages taking (measured) risks. It's a culture of no blaming when something didn't work out but rather try to learn from it. The working atmosphere is really good. People are mostly nice, very collaborative, non judgmental and not too worried about politics. I had never imagined working in a company with so many so smart people. There are really high caliber people in every department. The size and growth of the business make it possible to work on projects of great impact, whatever your function is.

Ownership: All about ownership at Agoda. The management have faith in a bottom-up management style. This means as an engineer I still have the trust and belief from management to suggest and work, and live MY ideas. Not only is this OK - it's actively encouraged. I just cannot see a situation at Amazon where I go to Jeff Bezos - hey jeff, let me rewrite your whole taxation engine. At Agoda - that's nearly the reality; management worked with me on my idea, suggested changes, put me in charge, I chose the team, and... OK I was a little late, but the project was hugely succesful and made us a tonne of money! Really, really satisfying. Technology: Agoda surprised me. I didn't think their technology base was that impressive on joining - I quickly found out this isn't true. Kafka, Cassandra, vertica, Hadoop, it's all part of the repetoire. In my time at Agoda not only have I been exposed to a heap of technologies that ordinarily wouldn't come across - but I've done the research and made the suggestions myself. I've learned java, scala, python, R in addition to the tech I already knew. Business: I've always worked in small enteprise companies - basically, they pay well. Agoda is the first big company i've worked for. if big companies are like this - i'm not working for a small company ever again. Agoda has exposed me to the business, I make business decisions. Whether to prioritize issue A, or issue B it's actually up to me. Now I'm not making choices like buying companies, or where to create the next datacenter, but... I can decide that working on the maps will increase conversion and create a whole heap of new features about maps and work on them. I just have never had that level of autonomy at another company. Thailand: Living in Thailand is awesome. I cannot begin to compare it to my life in London. Everything is cheap, everything is accessible, people are wonderful. This for me is a major bonus.!