Terrible company, typical toxic corporate environment - Anonymous employee Expedia Group Employee Review

2.0
Dec 26, 2024
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Good benefits, nice office in a good area

Cons

A typical toxic corporate company where no one knows anything (even managers). When you ask for help, they just tell you to read confluence and decide what to do on your own ( and after that you get reprimanded for doing it all wrong). There’s no clarity between area of responsibility of each department. You’re given a basic training during the onboarding process and then just thrown into water to swim on your own. Also, there are a lot of discrepancies between the job description and what they require from you in a real life. They post jobs as entry -level ones with an entry-level pay, however, the expectations from you do not coincide with that. If you’re friends with managers, you gonna be ok. But if the managers don’t like you for some reason, they’ll give you a bad time. Some managers are extremely obsessed with numbers when it comes to those non-sense KPIs Think twice before applying here, I had the same issue and just chose not to believe the reviews. How wrong was I. Some people from my department have left and they were so happy due to the job being extremely stressful. A lot of useless bureaucracy, everything has to go through tons of approvals. They present themselves as a company with a lot of values and don’t follow any of them. Whatever you say in a private conversation will end up being delivered to the manager. So keep your mouth shut. unexperienced students who haven’t worked in a healthy environment and normal companies may find the company ok. Other than that, I doubt you’ll enjoy working there

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