Company Updates

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.

Fabio Carta | Market Manager, Lodging Partner Services in London Has it ever happened to you when you've attended one of those university career fairs and you try to make sense of the endless opportunities, industries and jobs that are right in front of your eyes? Rather than helping, it confuses you even more!

Originally published on the Expedia Engineering blog, February 14, 2019 Continuous Learning Part of my role as CTO at CarRentals.com, an Expedia Group company, is to train and develop my engineering team. I'm a believer that the best way to learn is through hands-on experience.

Come join us as we adventure around the Hotels.com global offices and meet our team to discover more about their day-to-day roles, exciting projects, great teams and, of course, their passion for travel. Sarah Sandiford | Associate Social Community Manager | Hotels.com | London What area of Hotels.com do you work in?

Amanda Olsen | Software Development Engineer | Expedia | Chicago According to the 2018 Stack Overflow survey of 100,000 developers across the globe, 87% use Git. But do we know what git is? I thought I did, until my non-technical British friend informed me how hilarious it was that I use Git.