All talk and no action - Manager Expedia Group Employee Review

1.0
13 Jan 2015
Recommend
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Pros

Benefits are very good with generous time off and travel discounts. Some teams have a lot of flexibility in hours and working from home options.

Cons

There's very little room for upward mobility. Most people in the Director positions would never be able to hold similar positions at other companies. Most Directors have NO knowledge of the job or industry and are little more than babysitters for their Teams who do all the work. There's no consistency across departments or teams... one you'll find allows flexible hours and work from home, while others are very rigid. The company is in constant turmoil over whether we're a Travel company or a Technology company, and thus we don't do either very well. Resources are spread very thin and nothing gets fixed quickly. Everyone always has an excuse as to why they can't get to your project. Annual pay increases are almost an insult. It's easier to quit and be rehired to gain more money than to stay onboard and expect fair pay for fair work.

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5.0
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Pros

Good leadership and culture, good WLB

Cons

Large organization means structured, slow moving processes

2.0
29 Mar 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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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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