Expedia Group reviews

As others have shared there is often an undertow of unhealthy political focus in the company - to the point of being caustic. There is a focus on doing the right things but due to the politics and unrealistic expectations placed upon the line leadership and staff the improvements are mutated and often incomplete. Enterprise class processes and frameworks are often bypassed or ignored in the interest of immediacy. However the consequences of the technical debt that manifests much later are not acknowledged or accounted for. The get it done attitude is amazing however a lot of rework and just plain terrible design result in an often fractured foundation with which the house is built upon. This type of behavior is not anything new in the world of software development and if often a conscious decision however the leadership has to have enough wisdom to fully embrace the fact that rework and longer term active support of those decisions will need to eventually be corrected. The office space is incredibly cramped. While the new office in Seattle has some promise the trade off will be the terrible commute.

* Hard work and not allot of work/life balance - endless emails and very long hours needed to get your job done. I've Never worked so hard in my life. * Diluted focus - There are hard targets which are already challenging but they throw so many things other interim targets into the works (no doubt for someone above to justify their position) such as extra reports, meetings and projects. you are often running around like a headless chicken trying to do everything that you have no time to do your actual job and achieve nothing. They need to give the workers very simple objectives and then leave them be to do the actual work. thats how the needle moves * lots of lots of Politics - as mentioned in other reviews there are too many people trying to impress vs doing their actual job and they get all the recognition/promotions whilst the hard workers pick up their slack and go unrecognized. * fair bit of favoritism - with the same people getting all the recognition all the time. This can become very demotivating after a while. It's less about how hard you work and more about how much people may like you * lots of bad middle managers - People are promoted who might be good performers but are terrible people managers. I've seen some atrocious ones who are toxic micro managers or do no work at all (spend all their time on 'famils'/holidays or doing personal stuff all day at work) and take credit for their staff's work. They create the highest turn over. After the lengthy Interview and training cycle it's so sad to see so many great staff go because of these bad managers. * far too many meetings, too much talk with little action and too many upper managers trying to justify their existence but creating useless extra work/projects for the workers below. Let's stop talking about it and actually implement it. This does seem to be getting better though * communication frustrations that I'm sure come with any large company - so many departments/Alias's and no one wants to be accountable.