Good people don't stay - Finance Manager Expedia Group Employee Review

1.0
24 Apr 2020
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Pros

Aligned to the Tech sector they pay really well for the work we do. Benefits are great (1 yr Maternity) and the office is really laid back with free drinks and beers once a month

Cons

In Finance the director+ level is really poor. Younger staff will not learn anything from their mangers and are essentially left to themselves learning on their own or if lucky with other inexperienced/junior staff. As a result business processes do not improve and deteriorate over time. The directors I have seen are best described as "followers" not "leaders". Many managers are unable/unwilling to make decisions regarding issues, projects or processes. They tend to wait for others to make decisions for them and rarely offer an opinion. Really not a good place for a junior person to start and learn something. Most people leave for the same reasons: jobs tend to be very dull (copy/paste, pivot, publish, repeat), poor career prospect and poor middle management team. Good people don't stay. There are better finance teams out there.

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5.0
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Pros

Good leadership and culture, good WLB

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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