Expedia Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Expedia as a contractor for more than a year

Pros – Relaxed fun environment. encouraged social interaction and company get togethers. Low pressure work environment that naturally encourages high quality work. Great Full Time Employee benefits

Cons – Contractors don't receive due credit or compensation and there is very little opportunity for them to advance. This has created a very nepotistic work environment rather than being merit based.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Expedia full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Lots of opportunities, potential to grow

Cons – Compensation not competitive
Not enough efforts to retain top talent

Advice to Senior Management – Value your top talent and work on retaining them

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Expedia full-time for more than a year

Pros – Great coworkers, decent pay, and great perks with travel benefits. Great location in the heart of Bellevue. Great product to work on.

Cons – High turnover, poor management and leadership and very siloed between team---though this did improve over time. Effort and results did not seem to be rewarded more than playing the political game well

Advice to Senior Management – Get new senior leadership. Though some are very good the character of these individuals is very poor. Have been shocked to see some of the disrespect and back stabbing that goes on.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Expedia full-time

Pros – Great product, lots of upside in the industry
Smart people

Cons – Lots of new Microsoft leadership which is shifting the culture
Have to spend too much time on politics vs. actually doing the job
Expectations are not realistic

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Expedia

Pros – Reasonable flexibility on work hours

Cons – Promotions not by ability, but by relationship

Advice to Senior Management – Focus on technology.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Expedia full-time for more than 8 years

Pros – Benefits, esp travel benefits are really nice. If you love travel, this is the place.
There're still some great people around
Day to day job is interesting

Cons – Lots of politics.
Many instances of similar roles in different departments which causes confusion around roles and responsibilties and no clear ownership.

Advice to Senior Management – Clean up the organization a bit. Flatten out reporting structure.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Expedia full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – gives you the ability to be flexible in terms on what languages to code

Cons – Salaries not matching to the market

Advice to Senior Management – Please correct the salaries of the existing employ's with current market transs

Current Employee – been working at Expedia full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Great Minds, great technology and lot of good technical people.

Cons – Cross Culture between different technologies fails to thrive.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Expedia as a contractor for more than a year

Pros – The pace at Expedia seems decent and they do seem to honor employees and do employee morale events such as cruses on Lake Washington. Does not appear to be a burn out pace and given the fact the business is doing well morale appears decent.

Cons – Certain groups particularly GSO are full of former technical managers who have no idea how to manage teams to deal without side vendors or consultants or run projects. Most will write up a contract for a project having no idea what they signed and then leave it to legal to sort out their mistakes. Many of these same managers provide no input to projects, provide no contact/communication with teams and are merely held in position through allegiance with their one higher up superior who does not understand the poor project management they area doing.

Advice to Senior Management – Get rid of managers who can not interact with teams, honor the contracts you sign and provide 360 reviews for those above staff. You will rid yourself of those technical managers who have no project management skills and force them to honor contracts.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Expedia full-time for more than a year

Pros – 1) working on variety of technologies, so gr8 learning experience
2) good work/life balance

Cons – need to be more aggressive in inventing new technologies

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm optimistic about the outlook for this company