Vantaggi
Everyone I got to work with at Hopper was brilliant and passionate, I learned a lot and enjoyed the scrappy pace and the fulfillment of getting to deliver quickly
Svantaggi
The Hopper app itself is user-hostile and full of dark patterns, I should've realized that was indicative of the company culture too. There is absolutely no leadership at Hopper. I never heard from Fred (CEO) the entire time I was at the company, and I only heard from Dakota (President) when he was doing layoffs or complaining about Expedia. The compensation is only decent if you actually make it a year, otherwise it's all funny-money and their severance is embarrassingly low by industry standards. It seems that they do layoffs at least once per year and lay off as many employees below the one-year mark as they can because then they don't have to pay out stocks, bonuses, and severance. The same way the Hopper app is constantly trying to trick you into paying more for less, Hopper tries to trick people into joining to get 11 months of non-stop work out of them and then do another massive, heartless layoff. Don't waste your time. Also worth noting that a lot of things I took for granted at other companies were completely absent here. There was no DEI or affinity groups, no HSA or 401k matching, no wifi/fitness/phone/etc stipends. In the entire time I was there, we never had an All Hands and there was no avenue to ask questions to leadership.