Good for making friends, demotivating environment, repetitive job - Partner Success Expedia Group Employee Review

2.0
Nov 2, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

1. For people new to Prague, it’s a great place to make friends, people are overall very nice and friendly 2. When you manage to reach the bonus, the salary isn’t bad. 3. Nice office, good benefits, and company breakfasts. 4. There's some flexibility 5. Great for people who enjoy cold calling, handling complaints, and don’t feel the need to grow within a company.

Cons

This is only to Partner Success/"Associate Account Manager"/"Partnerships Coordinator" and related positions: 1. This isn’t a true account management position—it’s more like a call center. They attract candidates by posting the role under “nicer” titles like "Partnerships Coordinator" or "Associate Account Manager," but in reality, it involves cold-calling numerous people each day just to reach a few who are willing to talk. You need to have long conversations with around twelve people/decision makers daily. It’s a lot of prep, stress, and pressure for every call attempts, just to reach a few meaningful conversations. The stress of hitting these targets consistently is intense. Beyond quantity, there’s pressure to persuade partners to take certain actions, of course. It’s no surprise that turnover is high—even new hires often feel frustrated within their first few months. The job setup is unsustainable and can seriously harm mental health. 2. The culture isn’t inspiring or ambitious. Even leaders lack understanding of internal processes and the industry. When you ask questions, it’s hard to get clear answers. There’s a sense that no one really knows what they’re doing, and people seem to just “keep up appearances” until they can find a better job. 3. Since it’s a large company, you need to open a ticket for almost anything you need. Tickets are often handled inefficiently. Personally, I needed some documents from HR and was ignored at first, then they lost my request, and eventually I didn’t receive the documents in time. 4. Most customer service teams are outsourced, and communication with them isn’t straightforward. Partners often get frustrated with how customer service handled their issues, which leads to complaints directed at the “account manager.” This pulls focus away from the actual work you need to do and turns it into customer service management instead.

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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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