Excellent place to work - Sr. Software Engineer OpenTable Employee Review

5.0
May 30, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great team. Great benefits. Cares about work-life balance. Get to work on features used by millions, in a product people love and have heard of. Priorities from the C-suite on down are genuinely aligned with the best interests of both sides of the platform (almost unheard of in an increasingly ens***ified tech ecosystem). Clear path to growth. Great mix of autonomy and support. Great exec team. Makes me overuse the word great, without being prompted.

Cons

It's a mature company with a mature product. The cake is, in many ways, baked. A lot of time spent trying to figure out how to shoehorn features in without breaking things, as opposed to building truly new things.

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5.0
Mar 2, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great place to work - really good work life balance and culture.

Cons

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1.0
Jun 5, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

* It's a great brand * Great partners * Decent product with strong distribution

Cons

* Management style was heavily top-down, with decision-making concentrated among a small group of senior leaders. * This was the same when they were all working at KAYAK under the same group * I observed what I felt was preferential treatment of certain employees (notably of a certain ethnicity - IYKYK), which negatively impacted perceptions of fairness and inclusivity within the organisation. * The workplace environment could be highly stressful, and concerns raised by employees were not always addressed effectively. * Staff wellbeing, retention, and morale appeared to be ongoing challenges during my time with the company.

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