Dream Job turned Disappointment - Senior Business Analyst Vrbo Employee Review

2.0
May 14, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

3-4 Weeks Vacation, 2 weeks PTO, Paid Maternity/Paternity leave, gyms in each office, Wellness and Travel Reimbursement, Free sparkling water/drinks, coffee, tea, hot cocoa and healthy snacks. Friendly coworkers and advancement to lower hard working employees is available.

Cons

Senior Management in different departments and regions are not aligned. There is no change management. It takes forever to make changes due to under or improper staffing. They promote people above their skill set and then do not push any accountability other than to point fingers and push blame around to another team rather than trying to fix the issue internally or give resources to the team members that need help that would allow them to provide value to the company in their job. Company enforced scientific method, but does not provide accurate data to measure success. If you do provide data that shows something they do not like, you get a lot of we should fix that and then nothing happens. We need better coherence between teams to force data consistency. There is a gender pay gap here where they will pay less if they can and think you should be grateful you are getting as much as you are making. Other companies may be worse, but this is no longer the best. There seems to be more and more Expedia takeover as well, which means there is that negative outlook that happens when your job becomes obsolete or duplicate. I force change in the next year or so that will have many people more concerned for their jobs since the more Vrbo and Expedia become integrated, the less need Expedia has for the Vrbo employee regardless of whether the Verb team may be doing it better or not.

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Cons

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5.0
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Pros

HomeAway technology stack has come a long way. One of the most appealing things about working here is the fact that you get to work with cutting edge technology. In addition, the engineering team are super smart, so working here is a great networking opportunity too.

Cons

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Vrbo Response
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Thank you for taking the time to leave a thoughtful review. We love a good tech stack as much as the next tech company and it’s great to hear you enjoy working on ours. Our Data Science and Engineering teams are so important to the success of HomeAway. You’re right though, we are growing rapidly. If someone finds themselves on a team that doesn’t quite feel right, we highly encourage internal movement and having a conversation with your manager.
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