Meeting based culture and long running projects. It has good scope for professional growth across the organization - Software Development Engineer II Expedia Group Employee Review

3.0
27 Mar 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Independence of technologies and reasonably good perks in travel and healthcare. Ability to work from home and 15 days of leave to start with. Mac laptops or windows machines to work with based on choice. Very good technologies to work with which are top of the line. The company is basically a tech industry with a deep rooted passion for travel. It does its best to keep its engineers happy

Cons

Team velocity is slowed due to legacy systems and the leve of hierarchy one has to work with to get things approved and in motion. Some times teams are not flexible with other teams work and will not accept changes in their projects. Things are not documented well and new hires are not informed well to het up to speed. A lot of work done requires getting access to obvious systems one should have access for but may take upto 3 to 5 days for every single thing to be approved. People are not helpful at their first moment and resist changes to their systems.

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Pros

- good benefits - depending on team great culture

Cons

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2.0
29 Mar 2026
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Pros

Constant state of transformation is ripe environment for new hires and functional experts from big name tech companies

Cons

Pre-covid the culture was really special. Collaborative, engaging, people-centric, with a unifying mission to enable travel for the world. Since covid there has been a revolving door of executive leadership, and with each round, they throw out the current strategy to try something "new" without building from the current or past successes. Constant change, but no clear vision or strategy of what they are trying to change to. Lack of strategy and low risk tolerance leads to too many priorities with not enough investment to move the needle in anything. Quarterly layoffs, but executed quietly team by team so as not to make news. No psychological safety. Talent strategy since covid is to hire externally over internal promotions to gain "functional expertise" therefore difficult to grow your career. Siloed divisions not working towards common goal. Lacks operating model maturity needed for a company of this size likely do to revolving door of execs and priorities. A cash cow company with an identity crisis trying to be an AI innovator. Build vs buy mentality slows them down. Too many exec pet projects that aren't vetted with proper business cases.

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