Below avg tech company - Senior Software Engineer Expedia Group Employee Review

1.0
May 13, 2017
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Pros

you can slack, No need to work beyond 2 hrs per day. A company for losers, who are industry rejects, who cant get a job elsewhere.

Cons

Pay is below wayyyy avg. Example:market rate is 200K, expedia pays 125k. Middle management is extremely heavy. More managers than developers. The tech stack is a joke and outdated. Every 5-8 people team has a incompetent director who are yes-men to their bosses. The team morale is low and keep missing deliveries. The teams are composed on incompetent industry rejects. There is no company wide initiative to build tools which help everyday dev work , like build systems deployment systems, there is no capacity planning. Company gets hacked breached by intruders as the security of the network is very weak. The expedia website goes down and remains downs for hours. The management does not care about customer experience and does not refund customers who are eligible to get refund (Like cancellations, bad experience),Company looses bookings and customers are not even refunded. People who give glorious review are paid reviews. The employees are paid by $100 gift cards to give glorious reviews. Please dont work for them. Doing a minimum wage job is better than working at expedia. Anyway pay is also similar to min wag job. This company will not exist in business in 5-6 years.

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5.0
Mar 26, 2026
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Pros

I really love working at Expedia. The perks and benefits are great and I feel like I have just the right amount of work life balance. I feel fortunate to have a manager that listens to my goals and aspirations and does their best to find a path forward.

Cons

I’ve found the promotion cycle to be quite difficult to navigate, with promises made and often overlooked. To get a promotion, you have to work extremely hard to get visibility across the board often outside your remit.

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Expedia Group Response
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Thank you for sharing your experience. We’re so glad to hear you’re enjoying the benefits, balance, and supportive management. We also appreciate your feedback on the promotion process. Your perspective highlights how important it is that we succeed together through collaboration, while fostering an ownership mindset where contributions are recognized. Thank you for being part of the journey and for helping us continue to raise the bar.
2.0
Mar 29, 2026
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Pros

Constant state of transformation is ripe environment for new hires and functional experts from big name tech companies

Cons

Pre-covid the culture was really special. Collaborative, engaging, people-centric, with a unifying mission to enable travel for the world. Since covid there has been a revolving door of executive leadership, and with each round, they throw out the current strategy to try something "new" without building from the current or past successes. Constant change, but no clear vision or strategy of what they are trying to change to. Lack of strategy and low risk tolerance leads to too many priorities with not enough investment to move the needle in anything. Quarterly layoffs, but executed quietly team by team so as not to make news. No psychological safety. Talent strategy since covid is to hire externally over internal promotions to gain "functional expertise" therefore difficult to grow your career. Siloed divisions not working towards common goal. Lacks operating model maturity needed for a company of this size likely do to revolving door of execs and priorities. A cash cow company with an identity crisis trying to be an AI innovator. Build vs buy mentality slows them down. Too many exec pet projects that aren't vetted with proper business cases.

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