More politics than actual work - Senior Project Manager Expedia Group Employee Review

3.0
Nov 12, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Innovation, descent work life balance, up to speed with industry standards as far as technology, freedom to make decisions (until you become a threat)

Cons

Expedia is great until you find your niche and gain recognition. Then it becomes this chess game where you're constantly worrying about who's going to try throwing you under the bus behind closed doors. Middle management lacks the confidence to encourage their directs bc they fear losing their job to their directs. Favoritism over hard workers is unfortunately quite common and too many invisible alliances are formed. I've worked with a few high profile companies, Expedia being one, and I'd say it was the worst with politics and back stabbing.

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Cons

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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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