Why volunteer to have apprentices when you don't have time for them? - Apprentice Expedia Group Employee Review

1.0
13 Jan 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Great benefits for travel and health and more. Flexible work life balance.

Cons

Senior staff have no time to help train apprentices. It seems like the apprenticeship program only exists so that they look diverse and progressive rather than actually BE diverse and progressive. Other apprentices and I have voiced our concerns several times but it just they are neatly bushed under the carpet as they don't want to admit that their program doesn't work. My manager has told me that they do not have time for me even when they have to fill out important documents that help me achieve my qualification. Managers also get upset when you don't work to the same standard and speed as their senior staff who have been working at Expedia for 5+ years which is confusing as the whole point in this apprenticeship is that you're coming in with no experience and learning on the Job as well as studying. I don't understand who my first attempt at building my first application by myself for real world use could be done exactly the same way and speed as someone who has been there for nearly a decade.

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5.0
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Pros

- good benefits - depending on team great culture

Cons

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2.0
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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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