Used to be great, ruined by parent company
Pros
There are a couple very smart people that work at Vrbo. If you’re lucky you’ll get to work with them. But most of then have left already. The budgets are pretty big so you do get to work on some fun stuff— if you’re on the right team. But none of the pros matter because of the cons.
Cons
Expedia. Expedia is the nightmare conglomerate you hear horror stories about. Completely directionless, tons and tons of layers of middle managers who only gum up the works and prevent any real progress from being made. The worst manager I’ve ever worked with got promoted to director for doing “favors.” RUN AWAY! Do not take this job. I’ve had a lot of managers in my career, and she was by far the worst. Perfectly emblematic of Expedia— all talk, no game, no plan, no talent, no actual work. And right before layoffs she was given a director role, but didn’t Direct anything. Directors by definition there are supposed to manage managers, but she didn’t. Bad at her job, constant failures, no leadership ability, petty, doesn’t even meet the baseline criteria and gets promoted. Sure. We all knew it was backroom (or back pages) deals. Similarly almost the entire security team at Expedia has left. Most of them should have because they were awful. Some of them found better jobs. Tons of executive turnover too, because none of them can pull their heads out of their assess. DO NOT take any job on the security or compliance(GRC) teams unless you want a huge black mark on your career when they inevitably (AGAIN!) have a breach. There is a guy working there that is supposed to be based in an office in SF, so they pay him SF rates, but he lives full time in ROUND ROCK, TEXAS. And also never does anything. So he makes $300k and literally doesn’t do anything. Hasn’t accomplished a single goal. So who’s more inept? Him or the people who haven’t figured it out and fired him yet? Basically anyone who still works at Expedia or any company owned by them (which is A LOT of companies) is a loser. Or smart and already looking at other jobs. Also it feels great to work at the permanent 2nd place company. Work here if you want to tell people you work at “like AirBnB, but more expensive with less options and a bad interface.” It really sucks working somewhere you can’t even recommend to your friends or really use yourself. Pathetic. In short only take a job here if you like never accomplishing anything, constantly having your priorities changed, having to manage up, being pulled into all sorts of time wasting bs, and being promised the world while being delivered.... nothing. DO NOT WORK HERE. DO NOT WORK HERE. DO NOT WORK HERE.
