Great work life balance, try not to get laid off - Data Science Expedia Group Employee Review

3.0
11 Feb 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

work life balance is determined by the team, but data science team is relatively relaxed. A lot of opportunities to develop skills and grow internally. Ability to temporarily work from any office worldwide is pretty neat.

Cons

A lot of reorgs and consistent "light" layoffs keep you on your toes. continually stripping of employee benefits as a tool to drive shareholder value (no more on-site clinic, not travel budget to meet remote teams, creating gap between ICs and managerial role by only ramping up senior manager roles (cost savings measure). RTO to three days a week coming soon and while it isn't as bad other Seattle companies, it is still pretty pathetic to expect it with such an inconvenient office location and charging $12/day for parking (there are shuttles which are decent so long as you are near one of the few pick up points. I am not near a pick up point).

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2.0
29 Mar 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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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