Great campus, culture, and benefits; questionable leadership - Software Engineer II Expedia Group Employee Review

4.0
15 Aug 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Work culture. Benefits. Campus amenities. Good coworkers from a variety of backgrounds. Opportunity to get in on the unification of Expedia Group's many lines of business. Interesting technical challenges if you are on the right team.

Cons

Impersonal office space: not much sign of orgs/teams/individuals owning any space. Not much in the way of food or social gathering spaces offsite and near the campus. Questionable leadership: first team I was on had a project that had already passed through two other teams and had >60% of the codebase scrapped. Found out after leaving the team that the target delivery date was pushed back 8 months. Would have been much easier to do it all from scratch. Worked on 3 other teams at the company and never had this same problem again, but there continued to be a considerable amount of reorgs. Company was going through reorganization and "vertical alignment" of products, services, and infrastructure, which made for a chaotic environment and some conflicts of interest.

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5.0
4 May 2026
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Pros

- good benefits - depending on team great culture

Cons

Not every team is the same

2.0
29 Mar 2026
Recommend
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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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