senior software engineer

software engineer

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Travelport

Travelport is a company that devolved from the airline union culture and yet promotes itself as a travel technology company.  Nothing could be further from the truth. 
Almost without exception the decision makers are non technical and the resultant decisions have been disastrous.  Case in point, the flagship desktop product (Universal Desktop)was developed at a cost of 3 million dollars.  They put me through 5 courses on how to sign on.  The architecture was so complex that customers ultimately refused to use it.  We lost several very large accounts, the non-technical Managers were fired and, as a result, the company developed a new desktop product, but who uses it?  Very few agencies as the response times can be as long as 30+ seconds to load a seat map.   In addition, what is the value of a new desktop when the only travel agency community to use it is small "long tail" agencies who are as useful as a library still lending out 3 dimensional books (remember those?).
I would strongly urge new recruits to use this company as a stepping stone and get out of dodge at your first real break into a cutting edge technology company.  Ultimately, this company is on a path to being split up and sold. 
A typical day at worked resolves around 4-5 hours of chit chatting and the rest taken up by meetings.  
The hardest part of the job is staying focused and trying to determine what you should be doing to remain constructive, as there is absolutely no leadership or guidance. Oh and driving home after the beer parties on Thursday afternoons.
The most enjoyable part of the job? Playing ping pong every day, having beer parties on Thursday afternoons, and the work out facilities are top notch.

Worked on system upgrades, investigating issues, correcting problems, and new development. Learned new tools. My manager was wonderful. The hardest part of the job was trying to figure out certain things that came with understanding "why". This is due to the fact that tribal knowledge of these systems leave when people retire or leave the company. Workplace culture was wonderful. Everyone on my team was great, easy to get along with and very knowledgeable. I was never treated like an outsider.  When there were any issues, everyone was a professional, didn't point fingers and we all banned together to fix it. I enjoyed working here very much and saw so much professional growth potential and so much that i could do to help improve the systems we support, documentation, and develop training materials. The work load on each individual has been a lot to handle due to the staff being down to bare bones. I had just gotten to the point of understanding the tools and systems. I was about to  start an exciting (to me) project and also take ownership of more areas to relieve excess work on my co-workers shoulders. Sadly, i never got the chance to do that.  The reason the overall rating is so low is due to the fact that job security isn't good. 

A typical day, arrive early, work on the pressing needs of the project, visit with coworkers. Bounce coding problems and ideas off them, implement. Challenging each other, supporting each other. Office was a mix of employees and contractors but you'd never know it. 
I worked for one of the best managers in the company.  Was able to work form home or in the office as was convenient based in weather or project requirements. I had the freedom to expand my skills and was encouraged to do so.  In addition, the manager allowed me the latitude to manage my own project with a minimum of interference but was available for escalation when necessary.  
The company as a whole is transitioning to newer more advanced technologies.
The hardest part of the job was meeting shortened project deadlines, which were met, and coding to automate varying technologies. 
The best part of the job was the cooperation and friendships developed between BA's, developers, and team leads.  Everyone was on board to get the job done.

•	Utilized Agile Methodologies to manage full life-cycle development of the project.
•	Implemented MVC design pattern using Struts Framework. 
•	Form classes of Struts Framework to write the routing logic and to call different services. 
•	Created tile definitions, Struts-config files, validation files and resource bundles for all modules using Strutsframework. 
•	Developed web application using JSP custom tag libraries, Struts Action classes and Action.Designed Java Servlets and Objects using J2EE standards. 
•	Used JSP for presentation layer, developed high performance object/relational persistence and query service for entire application utilizing Hibernate. 
•	Developed the XML Schema and Web services for the data maintenance and structures. 
•	Developed the application using Java Beans, Servlets. 
•	Used WebSphere Application Server and RAD to develop and deploy the application.
•	Worked with various Style Sheets like Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).

What is the best part of working at the company?
Company culture and amazing people 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
I haven’t found anything to be stressful except me offering to take on additional work during the RIF due to the pandemic but that’s on me. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
When we were all working together in the office pre-pandemic, everyone got along and there was great camaraderie. Culture was one of working together as one team, while being very diverse and inclusive. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
I now work fully remote so I spend most of my day working alone but thankful for video conferencing. There’s a good mix of meetings and working alone so I’m able to get more work done without distractions.

•	Travelport has a RPO(Recruiting Process Outsourcing) through Randstad SourceRight
•	Working directly with hiring managers from the approval process of the requisitions to the offer stage.
•	Recruiting Cyber Security Identity Management Architects, C#.Net Developers, UNIX Network Engineers, Technical Project Managers, Business, Websphere WAS Administrators.
•	Surpassing recruiting goals over 120% for the past six months
•	Generating an average of $110K per month in new hires, internal transfers, and contracting assignments.
•	Sourcing candidates through various channels such as LinkedIn Recruiter, Monster, Google, CareerBuilder, Dice, etc
•	Weekly and Bi-weekly intake and update calls with hiring managers

Very top heavy.
Lack of innovation, most decision-makers have been there for decades. New ideas/suggestions met with hostility and may label you as a "troublemaker".
Cannot retain skilled personnel.
All development moved offshore in India, along with all IP for new solutions. Even lead positions are held by Indian contractors in the office.
Uninspired culture, lots of very old tech (TPF).
Work/life balance is a detriment as it is often difficult to find key people in the office or even online during work hours.
Constant push to do more with less, cannot backfill most positions. Yearly layoffs at Christmas time.
Have not funded bonus pool to more than 70% in the past 5 years due to not making revenue targets/goals.
Have lost several large/key customers to competition due to lack of innovation and/or delivery of new/needed features.

There is always a threat of layoffs.  They prefer to have a few overworked employees with the majority of the staff being onsite and offshore contractors.
The upper management seems to be only in it for themselves.  The decisions they make are not in the best interest of the company or their customers.  There is very little trust in them.
Some coworkers are nice and helpful, but many are not.  The workplace culture is continuing to decline with so many people laid off and so many new offshore contractors.
Much of the programming work is in languages that are not transferable to other companies (if you are laid off).
This was a nice to place to work at one time, but it no longer is.  It is now stressful.

Overall a decent place to work but a lot of turmoil and low moral among longtime employees (of which there are many) due to a lot of changes instituted by upper management in order to placate stockholders.
But even with that said, the workplace culture is casual and friendly. The work/life balance is pretty good unless you're in middle management. The work can be very interesting and there are always new projects to keep your interest. Fairly good opportunities for advancement if you're motivated to do that.

Making all the reports and fixing all the broken computers. checking all the broken/used computers and checking all the programs. Finishing all the tasks that my intern boss gave me.

I learned a lot of stuff such as fixing all the hard-drive, software and broken computers. Also how to handle all the missing programs.

The Management are very great. they are very organized. they make sure all the work gets done on time.

the hardest part of the job is, it is very hard if I am dealing with hard tasks and making everything on point.

the most enjoyable part of this job intern is I learned a lot of stuff and this is what I want to do in the future. I enjoy every single day I come to work because I enjoy and love what I am doing.

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