Engineering Culture at trivago

When we announced our renewal of our investment in Webpack and Babel last year, I found a tweet from Guillermo Rauch, CEO of zeit.co, one of the most interesting serverless computing companies at the moment.

Gyumin Lee and Eunae Jang were participants in this year's trivago Tech Camp. We did an interview with them to learn about their experiences and get some insights into the project development of triversity - a project management tool for university collaboration.

We have all seen the job ads that look for a "developer with at least 8 years of experience and a Computer Science degree", a "JavaScript rockstar", or somebody with "excellent command of technologies A, B, C, D, and E".

It was a very special occasion for all JavaScript enthusiasts at trivago: Tobias Koppers, original creator of webpack, and now member of the webpack core team, visited us in our Düsseldorf office. Since we rely on webpack to build not only some very important internal tools, but also our core product, its importance to us cannot be overstated.

I’m Behrang Yarahmadi from Iran and I’m a 3rd-year Computer Engineering student at the University of Duisburg-Essen.

It has been a couple of months since Kyle, author of the “You Don’t Know JS” series, visited our trivago headquarters and gave us a wonderful JavaScript workshop. It was such an enjoyable week, being able to meet Kyle in person and walk through his thinking behind the materials.

Ten participants from nine countries — India, Cuba, Tunisia, England, Poland, Spain, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Brazil. Even on trivago scale, this kind of diversity was impressive.

trivago engineering is excited and looking forward to welcoming Kyle Simpson to the spectacular new trivago Campus.

On the 11th of November 2017 trivago hosted a Hackathon at NASDAQ's MarketSite in New York. The winners were awarded with a trip to Europe to visit trivago's offices as well as conference tickets for The Next Web, Amsterdam. We invited the winners to our office where we got the chance to interview them about their Hackathon experience.