Mission: Hotwire differentiates itself as a brand by offering a unique a core value proposition for customers and suppliers with our opaque pricing model. We offer great bargains on hotel room nights without sharing the specific name or location of the hotel until the booking is ... Read more
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Launched in 2000 in San Francisco, Hotwire is one of the earliest innovators in the online travel arena. Just a few years later in 2003 we joined the Expedia Group family of brands that includes Hotels.com, HomeAway, Travelocity and more.
Our roots are here in San Francisco, but we also have offices in Seattle along with an important and fast-growing product and technology presence in Gurgaon, India. Hotwire has the energy and pace of a startup, plus the stability and backing of the incredible Expedia family of companies. Hotwire’s culture centers around delivering value to customers and supply partners by being passionate about building great products with the latest and greatest technologies available. We pride ourselves on our organizational transparency, a bias for action and a customer centric approach to everything we do.
Hotwire differentiates itself as a brand within the travel marketplace by offering a unique a core value proposition for customers and suppliers with our opaque pricing model. This concept revolves around offering great bargains on hotel room nights without sharing the specific name or location of the hotel until the booking is complete. By giving this flexibility to our suppliers, we can offer great value to our customers. Hotwire also offers a full retail suite of other travel products that can fulfill virtually any customer travel need.
We’re currently making substantial investments in our technology platform and our brand marketing strategy to enable our next stage of high growth. To make these endeavors possible, we’re on the hunt for people who are passionate about solving tough problems and are excited about the opportunity take on highly visible roles that will have an immediate impact on our business.
If you thrive in environments that are dynamic, action oriented, data driven and relish in conquering diverse challenges every single day, joining Hotwire is likely to be the most rewarding opportunity of your career. So-- what are you waiting for? Come join a household name brand that lives at the exciting intersection of technology and travel.
Expedia Group Guiding Principles
We put people first at Expedia Group. It's our job as the world's travel platform to solve the problems and challenges that stand in the way for travelers and our partners. We can't do that without our people. We're a team of talented and diverse people from all over the world, who are strongest when we work together. We solve problems and create ideas, we learn and we grow – and we commit to do so with a set of guiding principles. These 10 principles outline not only our approach but also our attitude to all that we do here at Expedia Group.
1. Put Yourself in the Shoes of our Customers and Partners
2. One Team, Group First
3. Have a Bias to Action
4. Relentlessly Strive for Better
5. Think Big and Small
6. Be Data Driven and Business Judgment Led
7. Simplify
8. Be Open and Honest
9. Be Humble
10. Be Positive, Assume Positive Intent
Corporate Citizenship Program
At Hotwire, our success is fueled by a shared belief that every individual can make an impact, bringing our talents together to accomplish amazing things. Whether it’s serving communities around the world as part of our Global Day of Caring, giving in-kind consulting advice to help a charitable organization thrive, or providing grants to philanthropic initiatives worldwide, we believe in people helping people to make a difference.
Giving @ Work
Our commitment to giving back in our communities is a direct reflection of the interests and passions of our more than 14,000 employees worldwide. Read our virtual Giving Report to learn more about our giving efforts.
Our Giving Philosophy
At Hotwire, we believe in a work well, live well approach and offer benefits to meet your professional, personal, and family needs. Below are samples of some of the benefits offered to our U.S. employees.
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I have been working at Hotwire full-time (More than 3 years)
Pros
Good Expedia Benefits, Free snacks, lots of places to push ideas (2 Hackathons this year) , New drive from Engineering management - Fixathons (helps fix long pain points) and opportunity to go to conferences. Work life balance is good. Best part is it's next to Montgomery Bart station. Sr. Engineering management and CTO is all for new technologies (moving to React) and EG Technology adoption. I have not seen this much drive and empowerment to engineering teams in last 2-3 years. Lots of promotions each quarter and great bonus. Focus on women in tech hiring and good mentorship program which is what I am very pleased about.
Cons
Lots of voice from product than engineering. Seems like there is always some tussle between Product and Engineering. Tech teams are supposed to do a lot by spending lot less allocated time. Technical program Manager in my team can be more technical and take more responsibility but overall doing much better since last 9-12 months.
Engineering team members needs to be hired quickly, so less burden on other team members.
Advice to Management
I want to see more internal promotions than people coming from outside joining the management positions.
Application
The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Hotwire (San Francisco, CA) in February 2012.
Interview
HR did technical interview, difference between Abstract class and interface, Design patterns
Interview Questions
