good company with diff experiences - Anonymous employee Expedia Group Employee Review

3.0
Aug 3, 2016
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Nice medical benefits, pay for health club, decent vacation. fun environment with lots of events. Really good opportunity for interns -- some with no previous experience come in and land a good job with a well known company. Additionally, if you have a good manager, there are opportunities to grow and chose different roles. Lots of drinks, beer in the office (kegs even). Lots of food from events. Fast paced and overall good people that are a pleasure to work with. Decent pay. They are growing fast, have multiple offices and a choice of Macbook or PC. The new office in Seattle will be a stunning campus.

Cons

Some departments are more toxic then others. There is existence of cronyism, politics and gossip. it is the first place I clearly witnessed pushing people out (making it miserable experience for individuals they wanted to leave). Remarkably, some less productive employees stay on board for years and float through the days. They do promote within, as per other review some of the managers do not have previous manager experience or were promoted when at Expedia to manager and sometimes director, having held much lower positions at previous companies. This of course can go either way - some seem well warranted others can be more perplexing. The new office in Seattle will result in a horrendous commute and won't help rent supply/demand = cost.

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Cons

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2.0
Mar 29, 2026
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Pros

Constant state of transformation is ripe environment for new hires and functional experts from big name tech companies

Cons

Pre-covid the culture was really special. Collaborative, engaging, people-centric, with a unifying mission to enable travel for the world. Since covid there has been a revolving door of executive leadership, and with each round, they throw out the current strategy to try something "new" without building from the current or past successes. Constant change, but no clear vision or strategy of what they are trying to change to. Lack of strategy and low risk tolerance leads to too many priorities with not enough investment to move the needle in anything. Quarterly layoffs, but executed quietly team by team so as not to make news. No psychological safety. Talent strategy since covid is to hire externally over internal promotions to gain "functional expertise" therefore difficult to grow your career. Siloed divisions not working towards common goal. Lacks operating model maturity needed for a company of this size likely do to revolving door of execs and priorities. A cash cow company with an identity crisis trying to be an AI innovator. Build vs buy mentality slows them down. Too many exec pet projects that aren't vetted with proper business cases.

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