Was fired for relocating - Senior Analyst Expedia Group Employee Review

2.0
May 10, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

- Salary is above-average (although there's no bonus) - Flexibility: hybrid scheme is truly hybrid. You can also work remotely from abroad (although that may depend on your line manager's flexibility). - Decent perks

Cons

I asked the company to relocate from London to Madrid, which they approved, and after less than 6 months was laid off due to a company restructuring. I was the only team member affected (rest of team in London/Prague kept their roles), so they basically let me go due to me not being in a "strategic" location for them, months after they accepted my transfer. Clowns. It's hard to get promoted. Even if you get great feedback on your quarterly/annual reviews, you'll only get 2/3% annual salary increase and no chance of a promotion unless someone above your level leaves. Career Development is not seriously discussed. Strategy looks all over the place, the company's been saying they have record bookings for a while now, but most of the good performance comes from the US. Outside of that the company keeps losing share to Bcom, etc.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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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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