Expedia Group reviews

* Hard work and not allot of work/life balance - endless emails and very long hours needed to get your job done. I've Never worked so hard in my life. * Diluted focus - There are hard targets which are already challenging but they throw so many things other interim targets into the works (no doubt for someone above to justify their position) such as extra reports, meetings and projects. you are often running around like a headless chicken trying to do everything that you have no time to do your actual job and achieve nothing. They need to give the workers very simple objectives and then leave them be to do the actual work. thats how the needle moves * lots of lots of Politics - as mentioned in other reviews there are too many people trying to impress vs doing their actual job and they get all the recognition/promotions whilst the hard workers pick up their slack and go unrecognized. * fair bit of favoritism - with the same people getting all the recognition all the time. This can become very demotivating after a while. It's less about how hard you work and more about how much people may like you * lots of bad middle managers - People are promoted who might be good performers but are terrible people managers. I've seen some atrocious ones who are toxic micro managers or do no work at all (spend all their time on 'famils'/holidays or doing personal stuff all day at work) and take credit for their staff's work. They create the highest turn over. After the lengthy Interview and training cycle it's so sad to see so many great staff go because of these bad managers. * far too many meetings, too much talk with little action and too many upper managers trying to justify their existence but creating useless extra work/projects for the workers below. Let's stop talking about it and actually implement it. This does seem to be getting better though * communication frustrations that I'm sure come with any large company - so many departments/Alias's and no one wants to be accountable.

Matrix structure means if you have a poor line manager can be restrictive. HR are useless and nobody wants to rock the boat. There is little management training and managers aren't accountable as managers. To become or be promoted into a position managing people there is seemingly no requirement for management skills or experience. If you have a good manager the experience can be different. Big company can mean ridgity. Expedia prides itself on moving fast, but my experience was that a lot of important stuff never got down due to ever growing pipelines and changing priorities There's a lot of work being done by people trying to prove their worth and get noticed rather than what's actually going to drive the business. Data is at the heart of everything, which is a good thing to an extent, so long as the data can be relied on.