Expedia Reviews

Pros

Challenging assignments
Good recognition
Good management
Excellent Team

Cons

Hectic schedule at times
Need more innovation

Pros

Good benefits and travel discounts are fairly good although not as good as you would expect

Cons

Work/Life balance is not something you can expect from Expedia
You will be expected to take calls and check email on vacation and during the holidays

Advice to Senior Management

Hire the right people for the right jobs - not just those that have been there the longest

Pros

- Good office space
- Good health care

Cons

- They pride themselves on undercutting people on salary. They play the "you'll be working with the brightest people in Seattle" card and it is untrue. Not worth taking the pay cut.
- 50 to 60-hour weeks are the norm, with little recognition of hard work. Your work laptop will always be on no matter where you are.
- Employee support and information for new hires (actually all employees) is abysmal
- Monstrous bureaucracy leaves everyone in constant state of confusion and frustration
- Upper management with no leadership or interpersonal skills
- If you ever wanted to see an organization with middle and upper management throwing their individual contributors under the bus, this is your case study
- Listening to company-wide executive reports and off-site presentations is like being at a frat party. Executive management is mostly white male and they do not understand or support their diverse employee base of genders and ethnicities.

Advice to Senior Management

Stop rewarding arrogant, misogynist executives. Show more respect toward your diverse workforce. Stop undercutting on pay. Put a stop to absentee, aggressive and disrespectful management styles.

Pros

Some decent travel benefits
Threw great parties
More beer in the building than you'd find in most bars
Nice, comfortable cubicles
Office in a nice setting

Cons

Clueless management
Misogynistic
In over 2 years, never got a raise
Company never invested in any training
Repeatedly disregarded my contributions
Paid male counterparts better

Advice to Senior Management

Upper management cycles through at lightening speed. Hire some upper managers who are going to stay for more than a year and know how to create policy after first examining why things are broken. Look at areas of heavy turn-over and ask yourselves why these people are leaving so angry. Learn about diversity. It's a good thing and should be embraced. Dara has led Expedia to great success, and I have great respect for him. There is one area, though, that needs a bright light shone on it, and that area is Operations. Operations is a frustrating place to work, at best. For women, though, it is an abusive, demoralizing experience.

Pros

Good work/play balance, very smart people.

Cons

Lousy benefits. Too much competition internally.

Pros

Flexible hours-you can come and go as you please as long as you get your work done on time
Casual environment-allowed to listen to music and surf the internet during company time
Nice location
Free drinks
Extensive training for new hires
Collaberative team work

Cons

Very clique-y, i.e. different departments didn't interact with each other, senior management wouldn't talk to or acknowledge entry level staff and temps, new hires and temps were excluded from company meetings, events, and outings
Work was repetitive and boring at times
No benefits
Pay was a bit low
Lack of job security-management would layoff employees on short notice

Pros

Great travel benefits, Open culture, PM's respected in product development process

Cons

Upper management had communication issues. Everyone seems to get in cruise control mode and treat it as 9-5PM job.

Advice to Senior Management

More accountability at all levels

Pros

Benefits
Other Staff
Global business
Opportunity to move

Cons

When working for a large company, it is a process to get simple things accomplished.

Pros

relatively small company, less heirarchical, promotes internal movement

Cons

quality of hires, business model is challenging

Pros

Good people trying to work together to do the right thing

Cons

Multiple levels of middle management with conflicting priorities
Various Cliques of employees from failed companies around the Seattle area trying to change the culture

Advice to Senior Management

Expedia culture is what makes the company successful.