Great work environment for self-motivated engineers - Software Development Engineer II Expedia Group Employee Review

5.0
Jan 13, 2015
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Pros

Great balance of start-up culture with enterprise technology and support! You never see anyone in a suit, there are free snacks / refreshments, great work life balance, awesome after-hours events. Specifically for Engineers: rather than mandating the use of existing technology and processes, teams are instead encouraged to experiment with the new, assimilate what is found to work well, and share their newfound knowledge with others. Also, I've been glad to find more gender-diverse engineering teams than I've seen at other companies.

Cons

If you're looking for your manager to tell you what to do every day and give you a big raise for doing only that, then this probably isn't the place for you. As with any office, there are examples of political decision-making, etc. but I've found these to be the exception rather than the norm.

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Cons

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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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