Bigger doesn't always mean better (in a company)!
Pros
Lots of travel, free food, parties, happy hours
Cons
Take the reviews with a grain of salt. They actually ask people to fill out these surveys and get rewards or gift cards. But there are a few honest reviews on here. The job is always what you make it. Maybe I just got dealt a bad hand. Maybe others are really loving it. I really wanted to love it. I mean, who wouldn’t want to work for the leader of travel?! It’s a dream job! However, even your dream job can turn into a nightmare if you find that you have given it your all and your day to day is more stressful than enjoyable… and lack of respect and inciting fear is a daily occurrence. Awful management and toxic work environment. Upper management are not connected with their team and they aren't held accountable for their actions, so they just don't know how to run a department. They're all trying to tear each other down to get ahead and be the "teacher's pet" and it turned into an exhausting and stressful environment. They're pushing women to be in charge, but the women executives that I worked around were the absolute bad people. Back stabbing and two-faced, but when we’d get on conference calls, sweet as pie. Is this a job or HIGH SCHOOL?? All the travel and free food in the world wouldn't be enough to make me ever go back there again! My first few months of working there, they sent me on four trips to different Expedia offices, which had zero to do with my actual job and duties. For example, I went on a sales training for an entire week. I met some great people, but it was a waste of a week. When I got back, I was expected to do my own job (which I was still learning) and when I didn't do my job perfectly because of the trips that they sent me on, I was given a verbal warning! What a joke. I went to happy hours and dinners with my coworkers only to find out that they just did what the manager said because they were scared to cross that person in fear of getting written up or losing their job. That’s NOT ok! My boss was either always traveling or always working from home, so I had to basically train myself on the ins and outs of the company and what my boss required… yes, like a mind reader. Hey, don't get me wrong, I loved traveling to cities that I had never been, but the position was a joke. The title was one thing, but the job was a hodgepodge of duties they threw together (maybe because no one else wanted to do it). I was working for one department, but I was doing everything from Accounting to marketing! So bizarre! I left there a few years ago and I have never been happier. Now I know what a job is supposed to be like… and that a bigger [company] doesn’t always mean better!
