Pros
A lot of opportunities as the processes are often manual and immature for a company of Expedia's size. The C-level staff are visionary and thought leaders. There is a lot of passion among the staff and innovation is happening. I entered the company with a lot of hope and optimism. You present an environment with amazing opportunity.
Cons
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.
