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Our very own Pauline Marol was featured in Optimizely's blog earlier this week! Pauline is our lead product manager for site optimization. She shares more insight in this post about what Hotwire is doing to improve conversion rates across desktop and mobile. Check it out here: http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vI620
We're excited our Hotwire App for Apple Watch is featured in Budget Travel! http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vI6yv
In celebration of Earth Day the Hotwire Cares team volunteered for Harvest Day in the TNDC Tenderloin People’s Garden. The team harvested 122 pounds and gave out produce to almost 50 residents and community members. More about TNDC here: http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vI6cJ
The team scores again! We’re excited to announce Hotwire won EyeForTravel’s 2015 Travel Award for “Best Mobile Travel User Experience!” Over 15,000 people in the travel industry voted to select eight finalists; Hotwire was selected in the Mobile UX category. During the award ceremony, our very own VP of Product, Eachan Fletcher, delivered a five minute pitch detailing why our app should win. We were judged on categories including technology, usability, graphic design, strategy, challenges and results. Congrats to the entire Hotwire team on this terrific win!
This weekend the Hotwire and Expedia Affiliate Network teams participated in the University of Washington’s Women in Science and Engineering (WiSE) Conference. WiSE supports over 1,500 women studying engineering and computer science at UW. In the past three years, 23% of the UW engineering and computer science grads were women – compared to the 18.5% nationally. Special thanks to Hotwire’s Serena Chan and Aarthi Ramachandran as well as Chandrika Duggirala from Expedia Affiliate Network for participating in this great event. http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vIfuh
Last week the Hotwire team spent lunch at GLIDE serving meals. GLIDE feeds more than 800,000 meals to people in need each year. http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vIfyG
Let the climb begin! Our Hotwire team was excited to participate in the San Francisco Stairing is Caring event, where teams of 2 took turns climbing up and down a set of stairs for 45 minutes to help raise money for SF charities including the San Francisco- Marin Food bank. Our Hotwire climbers took 62,673 steps and raised $4,954.00! Way to go team!
Tired of the Deep Freeze? Hotwire President shares warm weather travel tips with Fox News. http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vIf51
MBA Networking Event: Boston University School of Management's West Coast Networking Club (WCNC) was recently in San Francisco, visiting leading technology companies in the Bay Area. As part of their West Coast Tech Trek, MBA students met with companies that are transforming business through technology and Hotwire, Carrentals and Expedia were very excited to take part in this event! WCNC is a student-run organization, more information can be found here: http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vIf5l
Recently our very own VP of Product, Eachan Fletcher spoke during a Travel Massive event hosted at Hotwire's office. Eachan shares more of his thoughts about testing and learning here: http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vIf5P. More information about upcoming Travel Massive events can be found here: http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vIf5d.
