2.0
Jul 22, 2010
Exciting market space but a sad place to work
Former employee
Bellevue, WA
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook
Pros
Travel market is a very fast paced and exciting place where technology provides infinite opportunities for innovation in customer facing features. Expedia is a key player in this market and its original successes were determined by innovations in both business and technology aspects of the domain space.
Cons
Over the years after it was sold by Microsoft Expedia lost the passion for technology that made it successful. Its culture and core values deteriorated to a point where the main thing that remained important was office politics. Expedia lost most of its strong technologists and decisions about organizational and technological directions appeared to be quite random.
