Agoda Software Developer reviews

3.9

89% would recommend to a friend

(144 total reviews)
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Omri Morgenshtern

84% approve of CEO

78% positive business outlook

Software Developer employees have rated Agoda with 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 144 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Developer professionals have a good working experience there. Agoda is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Developer professionals compared to other employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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144 reviews
1.0
Dec 1, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Bangkok is great, multi-cultured environment is fun.

Cons

Stay away! No, seriously! This is not a place for talents, and juniors joining are basically ruined by learning worse practices... Here is all about emails, meetings, and micro politics. I worked here over a year, coming from a strong technical and innovative background, to find a bad working culture, bureaucracy, tribalism, code monkeys. Development is practically stopped due to bad management decisions and daily production issues. The salaries differences are just disgrace - local decent hard developers are payed peanuts, while great innovations are intercepted by young and ambitious mid level US managers and product owners, recruited by their fellows to... basically take the credit while doing politics and waiting for the yearly bonus. Some of the mid management are stuck here for few years, probably afraid to go back to the market - and for a good reason. Agoda is a bad line in your CV - assuming you're coming from a western IT market - believe me I have to find a lot of excuses while interviewing now. Sad to see a company built by the hands of the great ceo Robert Rosenstein becoming a swamp full of day-job opportunists working hard on... failing the employees!

4.0
Oct 19, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Very competitive salary compared to the industry average in Thailand - Chance to learn and use new technology stacks. Probably the closest environment to Silicon Valley that you can find in Thailand - Small team and if you're in a good one, you have a good chance to make impactful things - Flexibility and work/life balance (no such thing as working overtime) - Good location - in the center of Bangkok. Lots of things to do before and after work e.g. good restaurants, gym and entertainment. Easy to commute to via BTS - Travel perks, company events - Multicultural environment

Cons

- Hard to find growth opportunity. It's really a flat structure. - A lot of politics and somewhat flavoring some races more than others - High base salary but really small increase year by year, which is okay except since Agoda has been hiring madly, they increase their base salary every year to attract more people. So chances are, your salary will quickly be less than the people who join after you despite the same or more experience - Discrepancy among employee in the same position. Have to be vocal about what you really want, otherwise it's hard to be recognized. TL;DR Working at Agoda could be a big boost to your career or could be a standstill, it really depends on what team/project you work with. The company has been recruiting heavily over the past few years and they cannot manage to keep the same practice or culture across the company. Agoda's vision is to move fast and to be a leading accommodation booking platform. However, it's really hard to collaborate among teams when the company gets very big and everyone just cares about getting their work done rather than the company's best interest.

5.0
May 14, 2017

As far as u can see

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Can have ur own vision for a problem Managers will support you but will guide you too

Cons

didnt find any as of now.

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