Different culture in Asia - Anonymous employee Expedia Group Employee Review

2.0
May 29, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great perks, dynamic environment with free snacks & drinks. Most of the staff that don't have direct working relationship with your role are friendly.

Cons

Guess working in Asia culture, there is no work life balance particular for few of the local teams especially if you report to local managers. They tend to look for quantities instead of qualities and low employee autonomy which somehow drag to a mentally/physically tired status. Low flexibility on working hours whereas few of my teammates work till mid-night at home but still claimed to be late when arrive office at 9:30am. Particular teams follow their manager's working hours (12 hrs/day) because their managers encourage the long hour style as equal to hard working. Overall is quite a micro-management style on every aspect , like a 'Tiger-mom' style. We do not mind the work-loads, but need to be result oriented and serve the purpose efficiently.

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