- Compensation is well below market for software engineers. It's a bit laughable, but many stay because of the more lax WLB and workplace environments. There are plenty of very smart engineers, but the messy code base and architecture could improve a lot by hiring top talent who are leaving for companies that pay way more.
- Not enough support given to junior level employees; They placed some freshies into completely wrong teams that are better suited for mid-levels and above. Then the juniors wonder why it's taking so long to get a promotion and switch teams very late after realizing that they were on a bad team
- Expedia's product is very complex and quite frankly the legacy code base is a huge mess. It causes many inefficiencies and difficulty debugging high priority issues.
- Too many re-orgs in the couple of years that I worked there. Some of them seemed caused by underlying politics in upper management without a thought to the workers they impact
- Layoffs were handled terribly. There was literally no rhyme or reason for who got let go; A lot of very talented people who were there for many years were cut. Seems due to the fact that those people had high senior salaries and can be replaced with cheaper juniors
- Upper management is a mess. It's mentioned before many times on here, so check those for details.
- Expedia grew a lot over the last couple years behind faulty management and leadership; The chairman, Barry Diller, decided to blame the workers by "trimming the fat" with mass layoffs.
