Love Expedia's work/ life balance - Engineer Expedia Group Employee Review

4.0
May 15, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

For a tech company, there's great work life balance and great bennies, including some reimbursement for gym memberships, tuition, personal vacation expenses. We also have a great program in which we can opt in to buy stock at a discount. Most work areas are fairly flexible-- people aren't butts in seats, and can manage their work hours as needed. We sell travel, so I feel good about the product-- we're really helping to connect the world. Also, our employees love travel, so they tend to be a cool group with global interests.

Cons

No formal work from home or work remotely policies. It's becoming increasing difficult to even interview for jobs that are a level up, so if you want to advance your career in terms of promotions you'll likely have to hop companies. Pay is very good for a travel company, but typically much less than a comparable job at other Seattle tech companies. (work/ life balance *might* make up for this when compared to some companies.) Only higher levels get stocks as part of bonus.

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5.0
May 19, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Great industry to explore, impressive campus, nice people.

Cons

Old tech stack that requires significant changes

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Expedia Group Response
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Thank you for your 5-star review! We're glad that we've made a positive impact on you. We hear you on your feedback about our tech stack and are constantly improving in our offerings. All the best!
2.0
Mar 29, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

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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