Fun for a while, not a long-term career - Senior Designer Expedia Group Employee Review

2.0
Jun 13, 2008
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Pros

Expedia Inc provides an opportunity to work for one of very few successful .com companies - and there are now dozens of lines of business and points of sale within the EI family, so there's lots to choose from. The work is frequently fast paced, and there are opportunities to innovate.

Cons

Unfortunately, Expedia suffers from a highly dysfunctional communications structure - not only does top management not talk to employees, frequently members of the top management teams don't talk to each other, resulting in lack of alignment towards goals, and duplicated or contradictory work. The Expedia culture has also shifted towards a dramatically more top-down decision model, which doesn't always sit well with employees who were often hired to think and act entreprenurially.

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Cons

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2.0
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Pros

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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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