A staggering truth - Software Engineer Expedia Group Employee Review

4.0
12 Mar 2016
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Pros

This review is really about something that every job applicant at Expedia should know. Apart from that, yes, everything else about Expedia is top notch, including pay, benefits etc.

Cons

As much as I would like to say that Expedia Montreal is one of the best places to work at, it gives me much displeasure to say that you should think twice before joining. Here's why: - One of the key things to retain top talent in any company is to promote deserving people and keep them motivated by praising them. Expedia truly fails to do that. I have been working here more than a few years and every one of those years I have seen a majority of the wrong people being promoted. As sad as that might be, the upper management is truly agnostic to this fact. Expedia (at least the Montreal office), promotes people who clearly don't make the mark. This is not to say that those people aren't talented, rather getting promoted here only depends upon which product you are working on/how much of visibility you have even if you don't deliver any results. Since it's a small (and a remote) office, you know what everyone is working on and how talented they are etc. and when you hear about someone being promoted, you wonder if this is a joke. It's a shame that a company with such an awesome culture and great benefits disappoints in this area.

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Cons

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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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