Company Updates

Our purpose is to bring the world within reach and we can't do that without the most knowledgeable, passionate, and creative people in our business. We recognize our success is dependent on their success and that inspires us to provide our people with the very best to make that happen.

The AIM (ability inclusion movement) Business Resource Group (BRG) may be the most recent BRG to be set up within Expedia but it has also had tremendous success in a short amount of time and is setting a blueprint on how best to set up a BRG!

Faisal Saiyed | Director, APAC People Services in Gurgaon In general, I have long days since I handle APAC. Being based in India, my first half typically is about engaging with my team, employees and managers in APAC.

Originally published on The Hotels.com Technology Blog Introduction I am very happy to have had the opportunity to work in the Agile world for almost 4 years, that have been fantastic and challenging. Being a Scrum master is an invaluable experience and makes you understand and reflect a lot about company processes and software development in general.

Krystyna Waterhouse | Business Analyst, Lodging Partner Services in Geneva My current role - as of the past year - is that of a business analyst, based in Geneva. Until very recently, my subject area was People Analytics. I created capacity planning models, tracked employee performance to assess quality of hire, and provided reporting for recruitment.

When I joined Expedia Group Geneva Analytics team 2.5 years back, the team was made of 30 people. Today, we are over 80. The overall company has been growing strongly in general (10-15% per year), but with the growing push for more data, the analytics function has seen growth outpacing the general company.

Originally published on The Hotels.com Technology Blog Haystack is an Expedia-backed open source project to facilitate detection and remediation of problems with enterprise-level web services and websites. Haystack uses tracing data to help locate the source of problems, providing the ability to drill down to the precise part of a service transaction where failures or latency are occurring?-?and find the proverbial "needle in a haystack".

My career with Expedia actually started 12 years ago in Seattle, but I've spent the past 8 years in the Geneva office. I initially joined as a financial analyst, moved into regional analytics and managed the team there, before transitioning into my current role leading the BI Dev (Business Intelligence Developers) team.

What a journey it has been since I joined Expedia at the start of 2015! Given the wide range of teams and offices around the world and culture of inclusion and exchange, it is no surprise that my career has also been varied.