Expedia Group reviews

Bad Management - Managers are clueless about the technology, and don't care about technical debt. They will push the team to produce more and more content and the code-base suffers. They tend to hire people who are under-qualified and keep them around. Low Salary - almost anywhere else will pay more. Nepotism determines promotions - go to lunch with your boss if you want a promotion Women get more advantages than men. They are more likely to be promoted and given raises even if their work doesn't validate it. Under-qualified women get hired over qualified men. Women who make mistakes are not reprimanded as hard as men who do, and often men take the blame for women's mistakes. Expedia has a 50/50 policy where their goal is have an equal number of men and women at all positions. Since it's currently tipped towards men's favor, their way of accomplishing this goal is very sexist and hurts teams. The code base is terrible. It's build on layers of ancient technology and making serious changes to the architecture is impossible due to the size of the problem and because management doesn't care. There is 20 year old code still operating fundamental services. Both the domain and client layers of the site are poorly written all around the site. The site itself isn't aging well. The design looks dated and the site is too big to update it. It's also very slow. Consumers will find better alternatives elsewhere. If Google decides to build a checkout system for their travel services, Expedia will have a hard time maintaining their position (which is currently only on top because Expedia Inc buys its competitors). Compare flights.google.com to Expedia and the difference is immediately clear. You won't be learning new skills and improving as a developer much. The company cares about employees who know a lot about Expedia, not about development. Most of what you learn is going to be about how to navigate the terrible code, convoluted architecture, and poor practices.

This is specific to software development positions in the company. Tech doesn't seem to be in the company's DNA. Many outdated technologies are used. Experimenting with new technologies comes with a lot of push back. Main focus is on delivering things, it doesn't matter if the technology used is old or inefficient. As long the solution works, it is acceptable. Any activity that is engineering related but may not directly impact business, like code refactoring, code reviews, etc. aren't encouraged and given low priority. In the company, the culture is business-driving-tech, not tech-driving-business. At times business requirements are finalized without considering tech at all. There's a big gap between business and tech people. Also, non-technical managers managing engineering teams adds to the problem. As a company Expedia may be doing very well. But I wouldn't recommend it to people who want to grow as software developers. Innovation in software development activities is very slow. Chances are high that a developer may get stuck in some mundane tasks and not get involved in any innovative thinking.