Expedia Group reviews

3.7

69% would recommend to a friend

(7,781 total reviews)
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Ariane Gorin

72% approve of CEO

55% positive business outlook

Expedia Group has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 7,781 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Expedia Group employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Information Technology industry (3.9 stars).

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1.0
Oct 26, 2021

No longer why we loved it...

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Pros

It's a travel company and it feels good to support a product you're passionate about. I will say I think Peter Kern has the right intentions & goals but his leadership team seems to be getting lost in translation.

Cons

- Management feels more and more disconnected from employees. I used to feel comfortable saying 'hi' and speaking up in meetings with C-level leadership. It now feels like we are minions/cogs in the machine to them. - Managers are more focused on metrics over people. Yet, don't even know how to action the metrics. - My manager even admitted how toxic our team is and yet he's not given the bandwidth to actually remedy. - Management doesn't listen to feedback in All-Hands - When bringing up issues via All-Hands Q&A, the only response leadership says lately is "bring it up to your manager". - New Campus is frustrating to get to and work isn't flexible (despite them thinking it is) so be expected to go in. - Nepotism; director hired on their best friend considered as a double promotion. This was into an area they have no prior experience in. The person is not doing anything that was expected so we basically lost a full resource we were expecting to have with this hire. - Attrition; I can't go a day without seeing someone leaving the company either on LinkedIn or a 'goodbye' email. - Micro-management and no compassion; during the height of the pandemic, I had ER visits for my sick pet. Instead of receiving compassion, my director asked me how I was going to be available if questions arise. - Inclusion isn't there or lacking. We can only focus on one marginalized group at a time just to meet hiring metrics. Zero intersectionality or desire from majority of employees to learn about diversity and inclusion.

3.0
Mar 2, 2019
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Pros

For some jobs the work life balance is very good. There are large numbers of people who work 8hours a day 5 days a week, maximum. The stress is very low for these people. Expedia is stable and the risk of company failure is very, very low. Layoffs are also not likely outside of very specific instances involving handfulls of people. Management avoids terminating FTEs, to the point of keeping low performers. There are many benefits not found at many other companies. Management and senior ICs get to travel internationally a lot.

Cons

Expedia is not a Technology company. It says it wants to be, but it is a Travel company first, controlled by the Product organization. Conversion, and related KPI's, are more important than anything else. Expedia's technical management, from fist line managers to VPs, are often not technical and have no programming experience. No one at that level talks about "Big O", Algorithms, Data Structures or other CS concepts. Monolithic thinking permeates architect and management thinking. Most ideas and all decisions are top-down. People are told what to do. Problems are solved at the executive level and dictated into the organizations. Expedia Group is really many separate businesses, each with a separate and different culture, tech stack, standards and processes. Silos, and the walls they create, are everywhere. Social Justice programs are promoted by everyone in management, and speaking out against them is just not done by anyone. There is no debate or discussion. Strong technical leaders are not embraced by the leadership community, and leave. Most strong developers leave for more challenging and fast paced companies. If you want to learn from great technologists, Expedia is not the place.

3.0
Apr 26, 2018

Great Benefits, Internal Promotions Rare

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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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