Expedia Group reviews

This company is extremely political (more so than companies 5 times bigger). People may smile at you but the underlying culture is very toxic with constant backstabbing. There is not enough work and people constantly fight each other to get the piece of work to do. Most of technologies Expedia is using is very ancient. Employees constantly talk about how Expedia is better than big name companies like Amazon and Microsoft when in fact, Expedia compensation and benefits are below average. There is no upward mobility at all unless you have some connections to upper management. If you have multiple offers, please consider other options. Otherwise, be prepared to search for new jobs after a year as this is not a long term place to grow your career.

Where to begin...if I had to sum it up in one sentence I'd say "Expedia has a throw away culture." By this I mean, Expedia's cutlure is one that simply discards people. Expedia's turnover rate is HIGH - well above average both in our industry and just in general. One could chalk it up to attrition and the natural ebs and flows of a newer company (Expedia's around 10 years old). I actually think it goes beyond that. There is an internal problem at Expedia with: 1) Hiring the right people 2) Retaining good people 3) Growing people 4) Properly utilizing talent 5) Appreciating Talent I've been at Expedia for 2.5 years and I've seen nearly the entire Executive leadership team turnover almost TWICE. On my team of around 40, about 25 people left in the last 1.5 years. The turnover problem is on ALL levels of the organization. Leaders are often "let go" all in the name of a re-org, senior leadership that don't deliver are quickly replaced. Executive leaders go through 4-5 administrative assistants in one year alone. It seems as though it's "nothing" to terminate someone at Expedia. Meanwhile, far less care and concern is put towards developing people and evaluating employees in a meaningful way. I've seen managers literally lay off their entire team to replace them with "better people." I'm all for excellence, but what kind of culture just disposes of people like that? It's really really disheartening to login on Monday and find out some of my favorite people in the company had their last day on Friday. While there is much opportunity within Expedia to grow with the company, I wouldn't classify Expedia as a company that heavily promotes from within. Opportunity is definitely there for those who want it (and are noisy about it), but there is a tendency to hire externally for organizational deficiencies. I would also say that for a company that champions innovation, Expedia isn't terribly good at actually innovating. Time will tell how Expedia chooses to use this lull in the travel industry to become even more innovative. Until then, I'm not sure employees here are fully convinced that they are REALLY able to affect change in the manner that they were promised when they first stepped foot in the door.