Happenings
Your Top 5 Questions About trivago Answered
We’ve gotten so many questions about our product from candidates during the pandemic this year that we’ve decided to answer the top 5 FAQs for you!
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Get the lowdown on where we’ve been, and what we’ve seen. Here, you’ll find the latest news from Life at trivago.
Experience, Happenings, Humans
Diversify Your Recipe Repertoire: 5 National Dishes From Our Multinational Team
In honour of Global Diversity Awareness Month and World Food Day today, we’re celebrating in the best way possible: through food! We asked 5 talents from all corners of the globe (literally) to dish about their favourite local dishes and where to eat them in their hometowns. Happy cooking! 1. What is your favourite local […]
Happenings
Offsite Onboarding: trivago’s checkin week goes remote!
At the start of the COVID-19 lockdown, many of us felt lost with how to continue simple daily activities. So when thinking about checkin Week, our 5-day onboarding program at trivago, our initial reaction was “we have to cancel it”. But that thought did not last long… With 18 new talents from 13 different countries […]
Experience, Happenings, Humans
Operation OrgTech: How this team empowered us to work remotely in 5 days
This week we’re 3 weeks into a fully remote office setup and we’re getting used to communicating and collaborating from our comfortable home offices. We realize that none of this would’ve been possible if it wasn’t for our team of superheroes otherwise known as the OrgTech team. We took some time to ask them a […]
Experience, Happenings
We are All-Inclusive: Our Journey to Cologne Pride 2019
This year a group of six trivago talents took the opportunity to shape our participation in this year’s Pride in the city of Cologne. This is how it all went down!
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Tech Get Together 2019: Playing Rock–Paper–Scissors with 500 people
To kick off Tech get Together 2019, we played Rock–Paper–Scissors with 500 people in ~06:40 minutes. It was a well-received energizer game and provided a lot of fun to all attendees.
Happenings
Agile Coaches – Armed with Sticky Notes and Pens?
In Summer 2018 I started a new challenge within trivago. I applied for a role in trivago’s Organizational Agility team. The job description stated that I would work with Agile Coaches and Scrum Masters. Did I know everything about agile methodologies and what my team would do daily? Not yet, but I soon learned about […]
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The Campus Chronicles: How the trivago HQ came to life
Just last year our Düsseldorf HQ was spread over three separate buildings. But just a few kilometers down the Rhine, in the modern Media Harbour, trivago’s new Campus was under construction.
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Nine Nations, United in Code
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. These were the software developers who were selected for the trivago Tech Camp 2018, an eight-day event taking place at the trivago campus in Düsseldorf, Germany. The event is […]
Happenings
trivago Flow Lab: The Science of Productivity
The average workplace has changed a lot in recent years, offices from Sydney to San Francisco have moved away from clocking-in and cubicle offices and now prefer flexible working hours and standing desks. All of these changes are made in an effort to increase focus and productivity, whilst making employees feel more freedom and less […]
