Expedia Group reviews

Don’t expect to have a long term carrier here. Expedia has no concept of employee development for the long term, and senior positions are highly weighted to external candidates. If you have 5 years of experience you are in the top 1% of seniority, and many peoples tenure seems to be shorter than the lifespan of your average fruit fly. Most organizations at Expedia are on a 9-18 month cycle between complete reorganization, and it is the rule not the exception that you will have six different managers in the course of a 2 year gig here. If by some stroke of luck you do get promoted chances are you will be demoted again in a future re-org (so you might want to get out while you have a good title). Even if you don’t get promoted chances are that something will change which makes your carrier horizon very short. Some recent examples include a decision to migrate all code to Java from C++ which drove away the majority of our senior developers, and a significant investment in Offshore (China) resources which brings into question the long term viability of being a developer or tester at Expedia. The age of innovation is over at Expedia. Entrepreneurs who are looking to change the travel industry will find a tough go of it here, as most of our work is versioning of existing product & ideas (though this can still be lots of fun if you know what you are getting into). Projects are dictated from on high by fairly schizophrenic product management teams and in a bizarre attempt to be “Flexible” with resources, every project is constantly prioritized against ever other project, leading to consistent churn and wasted effort on projects which are later de-prioritized and killed.

Expedia packed a punch in its begining years, innovating and changing the market. Though the past few years, it seems it has lost some steam. Granted the whole travel industry is going through churn right now. Expedia made it great because it was innovating as a technology company in the travel market. Ever since it turned the focus to become a travel company, the technical side lost its momentum. Company lacks communication and knowledge retention. Upper managements don't communicate down to people and seems they can't make up their mind on what to do. Every 6 months or so, there is a re-org (some made sense and some felt like re-org for the sake of re-orging). Sometimes, changes are necessary however too often paralyzes production. Many people leave and the knowledges aren't retained because of poor documentation practise (lack of). Pay and benefits are although good, but not great. At other local high tech companies, the pay can easiliy be 20-30k more per year. If you want a steady and day-in-day-out kind of job, this is great. But if you are looking for a fast paced, constantly evolving and growing business, this isn't the place. Expedia needs to get its act together and focus, or else the #2 and the #3 will catch up. Product release cycles are too long. By the time a feature is released, either it's too late or no longer relevant. Hard to see the fruit of the labor immediately. This puts more pressure on the business to be able to see way ahead, plan and then hope that they are right. Hard to be agile.