It's an adventure - not for everyone - Anonymous employee Expedia Group Employee Review

4.0
23 Nov 2010
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Dynamic, global company that is a leader in its space. Incredibly transparent communications from many of the senior managers via email (unheard of in a company of this size). CEO and CFO do a fantastic job of explaining company strategy at quarterly company meetings and answer honestly when asked tough questions (I've never seen a CEO be so honest - very cool). Great physical work space. Smart, nice people who don't expect you to give up your personal life (good work/life balance). Opportunities to work on global projects. Company does a good job of making work fun (almost monthly activities for employees, and managers have freedom to recognize their teams with some small budget set aside for recognition).

Cons

Pace of change (reorganizations, shifting or last minute priorities) will drive a lot of people to frustration or ambivalence. You expect a company of this size to have its act together - leaders who lay out a vision, know how to focus a team on what's most important...but that's not how it is here with most leaders. You get frustrated because you don't have time to do it right, because your leader doesn't seem to say no to protect your limited bandwidth to ensure you get the key things finished. There's too much of a short term focus.

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Cons

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2.0
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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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