Expedia Reviews

Pros

Travel benefits and Interesting Work

Cons

Mediocre pay but travel discounts make up for it.

Pros

good work/life balance
weekend and overtime work is rare
lots of good positive communication
fairly relaxed atmosphere
all the engineers are very personable
everyone there seemed happy

Cons

lots of legacy C++ code that nobody understands
you won't get to use the latest and greatest technology

Advice to Senior Management

To retain the best tech talent, you'll have to pay the talent.

Pros

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Cons

Overall a bitter place to work for a women. Especially, the customer operations division. No promotions what so ever. Higher management incompetent to recognise candidates. Toooo many polictics to deal at all lower levels. If you are soft natured and straight forward, you are not going anywhere. It's most likely that you end up with a job that you are not satisfied with Or you are expected to do a LOT with very low salary.

Advice to Senior Management

No words to say.

Pros

2 weeks paid vacation, 10 paid sick days, 2 floating holidays.
Casual atmosphere
Claims to be a fun, travel based culture. I dont see it. I dont even make enough to travel. At all.

Cons

Little to no room for advancement
Not much support from senior management

Advice to Senior Management

For being the leader in our field we should be leading the way as far as compensation goes. We are at or below average.

Favortism is quite apparent when it comes to promotional opportunities.

Pros

People are great. The company is a fun company and the employees are smart and innovative. This would be an amazing company to work for if the salaries/bonses were more competitive.

Cons

Long work days and hours. Lack of bonus structure based on performance. Pay is known to be lower than the competition. I love working here, the people and company are fun...just wish they took better care of employees for their hard work.

Advice to Senior Management

Promote on performance. Better pay structure. Don't relevel people and say it's not a promotion they are just increasing your level, not pay! Pay people fairly.

Pros

Coworkers are really nice, you have a large extent of freedom, opportunity to work oversea, great review from the work place

Cons

the working style is too fast, unstable employment made too many employees in and out, little help from the management

Advice to Senior Management

Not much I can tell to the management, if I have to, I will say maybe the expanding of Expedia is a little bit too risky.

Pros

The benefits are good, and you'll be working for a recognizable brand. There are a lot of talented and interesting people in the company. Travel is an interesting and complex product - you'll be challenged and never bored.

Cons

Senior Management changes every 16-18 months, constant re-orgs, and high employee turnover rate make it difficult to execute against any vision. Compensation isn't on parity with the expectations of the amount of work you can accomplish. 10+ hours a day are not uncommon - especially in the dev and IT orgs. Highly matrixed organization to the point of being ineffective. Legacy technology platform hampers innovation and speed-to-market.

Advice to Senior Management

Instead of trying to do 100 or more random features per year that don't truly benefit the customer or drive us to reach beyond what our competitors do - why don't we execute really well on 3-5 initiatives. Constantly focused on transactions and improving YoY "gaps" rather than making thoughful, data-driven decisions that set us up for future long-term success.

Pros

You get promoted if you deliver what you say you are going to deliver, or try and learn from your mistakes.
Everyone's opinion is valued.
In the end, the political or dumb people get found out. The smart, good people are one's that make it through.

Cons

Getting to be a big company, hard to know who to go to for some things as teams are growing so fast.

Advice to Senior Management

Management by walking around, and over-communication is essential

Pros

Expedia has strong leadership and brand recognition in the travel industry; also has strong marketing position that drives brand awareness.

Cons

Internal technology challenges make it hard to get work done. Expedia looks good on the surface, but have a "fly by the seat of their pants" process that could use much refinement.

Pros

Many promotion opportunities, fair people, strong sense of community

Cons

Pay seems to be lower than that of other travel consultant positions