Great culture, slow ,low on innovation - Tech Team Expedia Group Employee Review

3.0
14 May 2021
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Pros

1. Culture, employee centric. People care about each other. 2. Some perks like free food and cab at India office. 3. Great Work life balance and leave policy

Cons

1. Over last three+ four years in the organisation few things have moved, competitors are doing better. 2. Too many management layers there are so many managers, senior managers and directors with one or three directs. 3. Top down approach. Things are decided at top level, before covid, senior leadership used to go out on retreat to think about product. Junior folks are often excluded from planning and ideation. 4. Not smartest people to work with. Can't afford to hire FAANG talent. Can't even retail good talent. 5. Pay is not competitive, Covid made situation worse. 6. Expedia is not doing 'next' in travel. Vision is clear mission is not. For ex. local activities the area where Air B&B made huge progress is still flat here at Expedia. 7. Career progression is often difficult or unclear. 8. Execution speed is slow. Look at checkout pages it's still the old page even after years where other pages and LOBs have already migrated to new design system.

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5.0
8 June 2026
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Pros

Good leadership and culture, good WLB

Cons

Large organization means structured, slow moving processes

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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