Expedia Group reviews

For a software engineer, Expedia is fairly unique among web companies. Because it was started in the mid nineties, it created it's own infrastructure rather than relying on off-the-shelf products as most sites do today. This means that as an engineer you have a much greater opportunity to work on both high and low level components. It also gives you a lot of freedom in terms of building new features into any of the core technologies. The developers in the company are overall very competent and good to work with. There's a wide variety of backgrounds and knowledge, so you're almost guaranteed to learn lots of new things through your daily interactions and projects. If you're on a good team, your experience will be very valuable and give you a leg up over the average developer with a similar number of years of experience. Expedia comes from a Microsoft background, so most of the things that make Microsoft a great place to work (flexible work hours, high standards, focus on technology) apply to Expedia as well. Currently, the office environment is great, but unfortunately that will soon be changing as the company moves to downtown Bellevue with a much more traditional cubicle environment. Being in the travel industry is great for an engineer. The industry is extremely complicated, and so the opportunites for trying to make sense of the ever changing industry are constant. You'll gain a ton of insight into the inner workings of the airlines, hotels and distribution systems that will help in your personal travels as well. Expedia also offers great travel benefits including wholesale prices on hotels and travel agent rates on a variety of products. Expedia is a generally admired company, so you can feel proud every time you tell someone that you work there. Many people will say "dot com!" after you mention it, which just goes to show how successful that marketing campaign is. The company in general is also doing very well, and has proven it can weather a recession and travel slump, so you don't need to worry about the company folding any time soon.

The people and friendships was great. I made the best of my time there to help create some processes and automation that were missing for a long time--or never existed for that matter, and in return, helped save the company a lot $ in not hiring vendors for most of their project work.