I applied online. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Expedia Group
Interview
I applied on-line and within days, I got an e-mail asking for a phone number to discuss my skills. We set up time and date, but the member of HR team never called back. I lost 90 minutes waiting. I still did not receive e-mail or a call to postpone or cancel the appointment.
I applied online. The process took 4 days. I interviewed at Expedia Group
Interview
Was contacted by an HR recruiter several weeks after applying online. Everything moved very quickly after that point, multiple phone interviews per day over the course of 2 days. I spoke with 4 people total - the recruiter, the manager, and 2 leads. The recruiter was very nice and professional, answered many questions up front which is appreciated when you're going to go through hours of interviews. The manager seemed extremely disinterested for the entire interview, so I was surprised when they contacted me for 2 more interviews, dubbed the "final round" by HR. The 2 leads I spoke with last were very nice, they mostly asked about how I work with teammates and managers. Not many questions about content from anybody, which was strange considering I had a lot of experience with it going in. Overall a positive experience, I would recommend applying online.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Expedia Group in Sep 2014
Interview
This was literally the worst and most unprofessional interview experience I have ever had or heard of. The interviewer initially reached out to me via email and when I responded giving times that I was available to meet, he didn't respond until a week later.
It got worse. He didn't finish the initial interview within the time he had allotted, so he scheduled an interview for the following day. I have a job, so I had to find a space where I could take the phone call and take time off work for it. I waited for fifteen minutes and he never called, so I went back to work. He asked to re-schedule it for an hour later and I agreed. Then he never called. This happened FOUR TIMES before he eventually did call me at the time he said he would.
When it came to the time allotted for me to ask my questions, I asked about the job function and organizational structure. He did not have answers to any of my questions. He then scheduled a follow-up interview with a hiring manager.
The process to schedule a follow-up interview was similar to the initial scheduling process: so chaotic and unprofessional it made me doubt the legitimacy of Expedia as an organization and completely turned me off the company.
Finally, when I did meet with a hiring manager, she informed me that the job description and description given to me by the recruiter was completely misrepresented. I found the role on a website specific to communications and marketing jobs and was under the impression that it was a content management position, an impression that the recruiter confirmed in our interview. She informed me that it was completely operational, more of a data entry position. The interview was brief, less than 30 minutes and completely perfunctory. I doubt the interviewer was even paying attention.
Not only would I not want to work for Expedia after this interview, but I wouldn't even buy stock in the company as they clearly do not have a handle on the way their employer brand is managed and the way their operations are run.
WORST INTERVIEW EXPERIENCE EVER.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What are the three most important trends in the travel industry today?