Ask Jeeves to Booking's Google - Senior Software Engineer Expedia Group Employee Review

2.0
1 Feb 2022
Recommend
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Pros

The benefits are above average and the budget you get to pay for things like gym memberships, home exercise equipment etc is quite generous.

Cons

Everything is politics. Projects are held up for months because of executive infighting and jostling for promotions. Every new exec wants to make their mark, so inevitably they change course as soon as they take over. This happens at least annually and will impact most people even if they aren't directly under that executive. You will be stuck in a hell of endless migrations. Expedia Group thinks it is like Google, a tech innovator with problems so complex that only they can solve them. This means almost everything is built in-house, even the things EG has no business building like CI/CD software. If EG was a search engine, it would be Ask Jeeves. The good engineers either move on to better businesses or get bogged down trying to unpick decades of awful legacy. If you have a good idea that follows modern best practices don't expect it to see the light of day. You will be told that that particular thing should belong to some other central EG team and that we just have to wait for them to finish making it. Which will never happen. They will get 45% through the project, realise it's trash and then start all over. That said, a broken clock is right twice a day. Sometimes EG will make a sane decision like switching to Spinnaker over their custom, piece of garbage in-house CI/CD tool. But they'll ruin it by making one team the gatekeeper to the entire platform and not allow innovation from any other teams. EG is a company that used to talk about "inner-sourcing" everything, but that got brushed under the rug and now you're expected to "keep in your lane".

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Cons

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Pros

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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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