Pros
Expedia has some great potential to take advantage of technology for improving their market share and impact in the industry. Great freedom in terms of work arrangements. People respect your out of work commitments (family, pets, sports) which is great. There is a devopsy culture in the tech teams and every engineer is getting involved with everything which is nice and the way forward for any company that needs to scale in people and tech. Huge use of AWS which gives you the chance to experiment with and try many different services.
Cons
Political and slow to change. Management of career and projects is very very poor. Actually there was near to zero career management or goal setting and of course no progression. Simple projects are getting over discussed with countless meetings creating huge overhead just to keep people busy and make non technical managers managing technical projects feel important. Covid is not great for the industry and the group but it is a great chance to improve efficiency and streamline existing processes.
