Expedia Group reviews

Expedia packed a punch in its begining years, innovating and changing the market. Though the past few years, it seems it has lost some steam. Granted the whole travel industry is going through churn right now. Expedia made it great because it was innovating as a technology company in the travel market. Ever since it turned the focus to become a travel company, the technical side lost its momentum. Company lacks communication and knowledge retention. Upper managements don't communicate down to people and seems they can't make up their mind on what to do. Every 6 months or so, there is a re-org (some made sense and some felt like re-org for the sake of re-orging). Sometimes, changes are necessary however too often paralyzes production. Many people leave and the knowledges aren't retained because of poor documentation practise (lack of). Pay and benefits are although good, but not great. At other local high tech companies, the pay can easiliy be 20-30k more per year. If you want a steady and day-in-day-out kind of job, this is great. But if you are looking for a fast paced, constantly evolving and growing business, this isn't the place. Expedia needs to get its act together and focus, or else the #2 and the #3 will catch up. Product release cycles are too long. By the time a feature is released, either it's too late or no longer relevant. Hard to see the fruit of the labor immediately. This puts more pressure on the business to be able to see way ahead, plan and then hope that they are right. Hard to be agile.

Growing pains. Struggling to get the last 5-10% of the market. Knowledge and info sharing is not great (things happen too fast and don't get documented properly). Multi-national company -takes all day to get work done within time constraints.