Vrbo reviews

3.6

66% would recommend to a friend

(733 total reviews)

Jeff Hurst

67% approve of CEO

46% positive business outlook

Vrbo has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 733 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Vrbo 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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733 reviews
1.0
Oct 18, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

4 weeks paid vacation every year - doesn't get much better than that.

Cons

1. They hired some big shots to run the CS department a few years ago and since then the department has gone to pot. They make unnecessary and random changes ALL the time. Most of the workers in the CS department loath the changes. 2. Some employees are allowed to work from home and the rest are not. Their goal is to get rid of work from home completely when other companies are going in the right direction of letting most employees work from home. Work from home is a major benefit these days considering gas prices and it is also environmentally friendly. Get the picture guys and do the right thing. 3. They keep adding more job responsibilities to the role and the pay is the same (not that great). 4. Goals are ridiculous, complicated and add more to our job description. 5. Mandatory overtime ALL the time. They NEVER hire enough employees. The only time they hire is to replace the ones that quit. 6. For an online site, there are TOO many technical meltdowns and bugs. This also makes for ALOT of VERY VERY upset customers that take it out on CS. 7. Myself with a few others in this department feel like we are all replaceable and there is no sense of appreciation for the employees. 8. Management has favorites and show favoritism blatantly ALL the time.

2.0
Aug 12, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good benefits? Good people, but losing more and more of them all the time.

Cons

Expedia has done a poor job managing this place since they took over. The laid people off during a hot pre-Covid economy so people started jumping ship right and left. They obviously did not think through their layoff strategy or they would have realized that good people don't want to work for a company that's laying people off.

1.0
Jun 3, 2020

Extremely Toxic Workplace

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

I’d say free coffee, but that’s setting the bar pretty low. Then again, Vrbo loves a low bar.

Cons

There’s no path, no plan, no leadership, and soap opera-level drama is around every corner. Trust is absent amongst leaders and coworkers. Zero accountability. People who should be promoted aren’t, and people who are promoted; well, it’s just surprising that they were ever hired in the first place. Inept can’t begin to describe leadership, and I don’t just mean the C-Suite. Expedia is a soulless company. I was hired when HomeAway was solo and before VRBO was made into a pretend word called Vrbo. HomeAway was also directionless, but it was a happier place with happier people who were also smart and not predisposed to mind games and unethical behavior. Most of the money you make, will go into the hands of a great therapist. If you find yourself there, trust no one. Especially your boss.

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