Looks are deceiving. Politics game 100% - Market Associate Expedia Group Employee Review

2.0
2 Nov 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Great work/life balance - Amazing benefits

Cons

Amazing benefits lure you in and keep you there to endure the under appreciation of workers. The company itself seems great but beware of the NYC office. As a newcomer you will think this is such a cool and fun place to work, but the excitement eventually dies down once you start seeing clearly. Management is a joke and are horrible people managers. They only look out for themselves and everyone beneath them are disposable. Promotional opportunities are scarce and they give the illusion that everyone has a fair shot. In reality, management already know who they want in the next role and pit people against each other and watch them fight it out. People are promoted based on 80% on how much you suck up to management and 20% on actual competence. This is how New York ended up with a team of managers with a poorly run office with low morale. They are also working very hard on promoting diversity and inclusion recently, but don't be fooled. Look around the office, its really not that diverse.

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Pros

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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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