Orbitz Worldwide reviews

So many talented people already left or were let go. Those who are staying were offered much lower level of title and responsibilities, so morale is low. No clarity on quality of projects to be worked on. Bellevue teams are already too bloated with duplicate work and wasted effort. Expedia touted their goals to have 30 percent women VPs by 2020 yet no effort was made to retain Orbitz women leaders, so many talented women were let go: they were directors and VPs at Orbitz.

The people who miserably failed in the execution of the most pivotal project are still in key positions and have been rewarded with promotions. You have to be in the right side to get promoted in the company and if you show your dissent in anyway you remain sidelined. Very long projects and many death marches has sapped the company of great people and the remaining talent is burnt out. In the last few months I was there, most of the people were just there to collect a pay check and show the Agile metrics instead of being there to produce great products. There is a lot of talk of how everybody is going to be open and change the culture but nothing changed and I hear nothing has changed even now. There are a lot of people who don't understand technology are given key roles as part of strategy and so there is very little innovation. Research carefully to whom you are going to report! There are places in the company where people have worked together for many many years together and are prone to insular thinking and have no clue about technology.