Great Benefits, Internal Promotions Rare - Anonymous employee Expedia Group Employee Review

3.0
26 Apr 2018
Anonymous employee
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Pros

The benefits are amazing. Starting pay is very competitive. The culture is fantastic and very open. The employee part of benefits is fairly low. Most employees can work remotely occasionally, and they understand family needs.

Cons

If you excel at your position, do more than is asked, and even accept the responsibilities of a higher level position, you stand less of a chance to get promoted than an outside person has of getting the job. The fact that you understand the company and how to get things done within it won't be taken into consideration, even though an outside hire will take over a year to get up to speed. After your initial hire the pay increases will barely keep up with the increases for your part of the benefits (which really isn't much). Don't expect to make a large jump in pay, even if you somehow manage to get promoted.

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5.0
19 May 2026
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Pros

Great industry to explore, impressive campus, nice people.

Cons

Old tech stack that requires significant changes

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Expedia Group Response
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Thank you for your 5-star review! We're glad that we've made a positive impact on you. We hear you on your feedback about our tech stack and are constantly improving in our offerings. All the best!
2.0
29 Mar 2026
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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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