Dinosaur (Asteroid is about to hit) - Senior Manager Expedia Group Employee Review

1.0
Nov 23, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

- Colleagues - Work Life Balance - Parental benefits

Cons

This company is becoming irrelevant at an alarming pace. Truth be told, Expedia was never at the forefront of tech innovation but you could expect a humble org staying relevant and treating its people well. Under the new CEO, the org is being sold for scraps. Vision is to turn Expedia into a nimble and agile org but the senior management is just incapable of delivering change. Most of the folks at Sr. Director/VP/SVP level have been around for donkeys years and moved up the org without any precedent of delivering impact. Those same leaders(?) are trying hard to reinvent themselves in this new org and they're using the same inefficient means (meetings, townhalls, Strategy sessions, State of the unions!???) without any execution! Airbnb, Booking and Trip are stealing share across markets and target segments and unfortunately, its only a matter of time when cost cutting measures will not deliver any incremental impact. The employees see it too. The engagement and morale are unbelievably low and expedia branded CVs are floating around the job scene. I wish I was wrong, but the asteroid is closing in and Expediasaurus will not survive :-(

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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2.0
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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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