Leadership is so unorganized - Senior Ssoftware Engineer Expedia Group Employee Review

1.0
24 Sept 2025
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Pros

Depends on the team but some people and managers are excellent and very nice. People are very helpful and willing to help if needed

Cons

The leadership is really unorganized, I mean VP's and up. Re-Orgs every few months and nobody had any clue why or what the point is, seems like "re orgs" are just a curtain behind layoffs as re org and lay offs come together. Promotion culture is really bad. They don't emphasize or see promotions as a importance. People who deserve to get promoted and work extra hours don't get promoted, and people who don't deserve it sometimes get it, it really doesn't make sense. You don't seem to get anything from working extra hard, some people truly want to and have the motivation but when its not seen people loose motivation. I'm a senior but if I was entry level I would want to avoid expedia if i could. They don't really care about personal skill growth and giving you whats needed to master the domain. This is very not efficient, if you want great engineers who can propel the company to be be a top tech company then you should invest in the young engineers, its worth it. They don't know how to lay off, I have seen the most talented engineers we have laid off, just have us re hire someone worse a few months later. We loose great talent because of this. Lay offs will always happen for sure, but as someone who has worked in three major tech companies I can say that Expedia doesn't know how to lay offs correctly and its a big mess and a lot of times they lay off the wrong people.

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5.0
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Pros

Good leadership and culture, good WLB

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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