Poor work culture in software dev teams - Senior Software Engineer Agoda Employee Review

1.0
Dec 22, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Non IT Teams are good. International teams, people from all continents. Their focus on data is good. A/B testing. Excellent centralized application monitoring metrics.

Cons

Claims to be agile with most teams following scrum. In reality, product owners are project managers who micromanage the team. Development managers are there just to ensure engineers accept whatever timelines POs demands. Absolutely no consideration for architecture or design. Code the fastest dumbest thing, and you are appreciated. Take a little effort to put in a good design, then manager starts complaining you are not delivering fast enough. For bugs, put in workarounds. Try finding the root cause, and fixing it, then you are not fast enough. They would rather put in a workaround to delay the issue by a month than spent time to fix the root cause. The most common complaint from all software engineers (from all continents) is that their team has the worst code base they have seen in their career. Scalability is more often achieved by throwing in tons of servers, instead of writing code designed to scale. Bad for software career, don't join here! If you join, leave within a year.

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5.0
Feb 13, 2026
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Pros

Good experience with interesting work culture.

Cons

Pay was not competitive, benefits were not great.

4.0
Dec 11, 2025
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Pros

Global company with diverse cohort, will give you opportunities to learn, strength in data usage, Bangkok location, good overall business trajectory

Cons

Low pay for tech industry, work-life balance is poor, can feel stuck if your manager does not support your growth, dependency on PPT presentations

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