Orbitz Worldwide Reviews

Current Employee – been working at Orbitz Worldwide full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Open minded - good opportunities to learn

Cons – Too much bureaucracy... employees spend too much time on being able to do their job.

Advice to Senior Management – Focusing on everything isn't really focusing...

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

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

Pros – Orbitz is a great place to start your career and/or grow your career. Lots of smart people who like to challenge the status quo. Fast paced environment with cutting edge technology. Not a place for people who want to work 9-5.

Cons – Orbitz is a global company that can sometimes work in silos. We need to continue to break down these silos to be successful.

Advice to Senior Management – Continue to provide honest and open feedback.

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

Former Employee – worked at Orbitz Worldwide full-time for more than a year

Pros – Nice location, well known brand. Very competitive industry, lots of smart folks to learn from. Pay is ok, though can be tough to move up.

Cons – The benefits need work. Compared to other .coms the benefits are quite poor. No 401k match first year in, 10 days paid time off, sub-par insurance, no personal package deliveries and to top it off a recent layoff in the past 6 months.

Advice to Senior Management – Things have improved (slowly) but morale is low, many more will leave unless things improve.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Former Employee – worked at Orbitz Worldwide full-time for more than a year

Pros – Youthful spirit, smart friendly professional people, sense of humor, great benefits, fun place to work, flexible working hours, cutting edge technologies, challenging assignments, constant learning.

Cons – Changes in technologies, teams, structures, goals and directions come too often
and on a regular basic.
It may be hard to learn and adjust and be productive at the same time.
Too much multitasking and too many different responsibilities for each Software Engineer.
It makes it challenging to concentrate and difficult to perform each duty with high quality.
OK for some people, not so for others.
Business is very complex. Many processes to adhere to. It takes between 6 and 12 months
to learn enough to become fully productive.

Advice to Senior Management – Simplify annual evaluation process. Nobody likes it. Other than that, no complaints.

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Orbitz Worldwide full-time

Pros – Flexible work timings, intelligent co-workers, challenging projects

Cons – Change is the rule of nature. Need to be quick in adapting to changing needs

Yes, I would recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Orbitz Worldwide full-time for less than a year

Pros – Great people to work with, cutting edge technology with lots to learn. Easy to move around teams. Flexible work hours as well.

Cons – The compensation is really low for a technology company. Competitors pay employees way more! No stock options provided (at least for fresh graduates).

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

Current Employee – been working at Orbitz Worldwide full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – Great benefits, majority of the people are great.

Cons – Slt is not trust worthy. Company is making bad choices that does not support staff. Moral is at all time low. Company is headed in wrong direction and losing great people.

Advice to Senior Management – Stop screwing over the people who are making you money.

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

Former Employee – worked at Orbitz Worldwide full-time for more than a year

Pros – -Located in Oglvie train station.
-Work from home options (depending on group & manager).
-Monthly employee happy hours (for those that like to drink).
-Certain members of Senior Leadership are very approachable and easy to work with.
-There are some very talented and productive people working (and formerly) at Orbitz.

Cons – -Compensation is not that great, raises are OK. Bonus is pretty low and not competitive.
-High turnover in many groups
-Lots of changes due to lack of cash/money, and cutbacks/layoffs
-Office is OK, kind of dated and dark; not enough conference room space
-Certain Managers/Directors were promoted due to how long they worked at company, not based on people or management skills. Some are highly inappropriate and have long histories of this.
-Not much available for career advancement outside of Technology.
-Work/life balance is not great for high performers. Those with a good work/life balance are not high performers.

Advice to Senior Management – -Determine a solid, actionable and strategic 5 year plan for the company and follow it. It will build confidence among employees.
-Promote people based on people and management skills - NOT just subject matter area expertise or length of time at the company. Weed out problem employees and low producers. Move towards all teams being high performing, not just a small select few.
-Offer more competitive compensation, better benefits (for the price).
-Encourage Management (Managers/Directors) to be more professional and respectful of employees, there is too much gossiping and inappropriate things happening, and a lack of direction and structure (in groups) is driving people away. Require a core set of company values to be followed at all times by all employees.
-Reduce silos between functions and open up/strengthen communication. The silos still allow decisions to be made in a vacuum which undermine other business functions and lessen employee confidence.

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

Current Employee – been working at Orbitz Worldwide full-time for more than 7 years

Pros – - Very talented and collaborative group of employees
- The company invests in its people
- Promotes internal candidates.

Cons – - There is some red-tape in the form of code review policies, has some upside where you learn from a large group, but overall makes for a slow process.

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

Current Employee – been working at Orbitz Worldwide

Pros – Really talented individuals in the group. Great place to compete and grow yourself in your carreer

Cons – Bonus packages are not very convincing