Great experience, then move on - Anonymous employee Expedia Group Employee Review

4.0
19 Apr 2012
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Benefits are good, including travel benefits. Opportunity to balance many projects. Fun place to work. Expedia is still a very young company, so still has some of the perks of an early start up, though those are quickly going away (t-shirts, picnics, fun holiday party.) Work life balance is good. Since they low ball salaries, it is a good place to get some experience, but you may not want to stay long.

Cons

Promotions are nearly non-existent and the ones that are given out, it is not clear why or how the person got it. Very little recognition for a job well done. Low ball salary and no clear criteria on how bonuses are given out. Departments are very autonomous, so there is a lot of duplication of effort. Leadership was put in place because they have been in travel for a long time, not because they are good leaders. There is little to no internal leadership training, so no expectation of leaders learning leadership skills. No value in keeping valuable employees.

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Cons

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Cons

Pre-covid the culture was really special. Collaborative, engaging, people-centric, with a unifying mission to enable travel for the world. Since covid there has been a revolving door of executive leadership, and with each round, they throw out the current strategy to try something "new" without building from the current or past successes. Constant change, but no clear vision or strategy of what they are trying to change to. Lack of strategy and low risk tolerance leads to too many priorities with not enough investment to move the needle in anything. Quarterly layoffs, but executed quietly team by team so as not to make news. No psychological safety. Talent strategy since covid is to hire externally over internal promotions to gain "functional expertise" therefore difficult to grow your career. Siloed divisions not working towards common goal. Lacks operating model maturity needed for a company of this size likely do to revolving door of execs and priorities. A cash cow company with an identity crisis trying to be an AI innovator. Build vs buy mentality slows them down. Too many exec pet projects that aren't vetted with proper business cases.

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