Once a great place to work it is now a Corporate theater on Executive level - Executive Expedia Group Employee Review

3.0
Sep 13, 2018
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Pros

Big company, easy to change between brands, locations and countries. Very good place for beginners and mid level Managers. Lots of advantages.

Cons

On the Executive Level Expedia went from a fast paced, result driven company to the worst of Corporate self loving companies. Quote from a board member: Perception is everything in this company". Thus perception is more valued than results, opportunistic behavior over drive and devotion. This goes through all the brands now, from EAN to LPS, from Hotels.com to GPG. HR has taken a changing position, from once considering every dept as their client/customer now it is purely thriving for Power and decision making, often overpowering business needs and opinions. This in addition to the "Corporate "rather be loved then efficient" stands in harsh contrast to its original and fantastic Company culture.

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5.0
May 21, 2026
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Pros

Great work-life balance, understanding folks, great culture and events, scope to grow without a lot of politics.

Cons

On some teams, work can be redundant and slow; ownership with MLS is more than with MLEs.

2.0
Mar 29, 2026
Recommend
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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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