Company is now top down - Director, Software Engineering Expedia Group Employee Review

3.0
16 Sept 2025
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Pros

There are pockets of great people, who your leader is matters a lot

Cons

Leadership is very top down now. Mid and low level leaders are not empowered anymore. Expect to spend a lot of time filling out power points and showing how what you do aligns with what SVPs want. They no longer want managers and directors who can solve big problems. They want you to say yes and do what you're told.

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5.0
16 Dec 2025
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Pros

work life balance is chill, benefits are great, work can be rewarding

Cons

not as challenging, more of a coaster company, pay not as high

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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