Market Associate role - Market Associate Expedia Group Employee Review

2.0
15 May 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Office location and design - Standing up desks for everyone - Great support team - Benefits - L&D courses - Good stepping stone into industry as you make connections with many hotels - Colleagues - Standardised global way of doing things so you can talk to someone on the other side of the world and they'd know your exact problem

Cons

- Not much diversity in the job role so you’ll get bored quickly. You're pretty much stuck doing rate parity checks every day and not much else. - Micro managed having weekly meetings on your numbers and why you're not hitting them. You had to cc in a Market Manager in every email you sent. - The role is not very autonomous – not able to think for yourself, just do as you’re told. - Director is not a very good leader - he has claimed a meeting room as his own office in an open plan floor, ‘leading’ his team from there. - Overall culture favours outgoing and outspoken individuals. Takes them longer to recognise talent in quieter and analytical types. - Lots of favouritism and if you're not one of the favourites, then your chances of moving up the ladder or getting recognised will not come.

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Cons

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Cons

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