Still trying to decide what we want to be when we grow up - Senior Project Manager Expedia Group Employee Review

1.0
7 Jul 2008
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Pros

fun industry, lots of travel related news, opinions, thoughts, ideas. i love to travel and like the concept of working for a travel company.

Cons

very immature in process and thought leadership. primarily a "do"er and not a leader culture. people get promoted thru the ranks without the necessary qualifications or skills. not competence, but loyalty and tenure are rewarded the most. most of the directors have the skills of a team leader or lower level manager at best. very arrogant and ego driven culture. very resistant to change and acceptance of new ways of thinking is very very low. the company revolves around the technology organization--even HR is afraid of the product dev org and will bend over backwards to keep WWPD (world wide product dev) happy, even when they don't deliver.

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5.0
4 May 2026
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Pros

- good benefits - depending on team great culture

Cons

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2.0
29 Mar 2026
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Pros

Constant state of transformation is ripe environment for new hires and functional experts from big name tech companies

Cons

Pre-covid the culture was really special. Collaborative, engaging, people-centric, with a unifying mission to enable travel for the world. Since covid there has been a revolving door of executive leadership, and with each round, they throw out the current strategy to try something "new" without building from the current or past successes. Constant change, but no clear vision or strategy of what they are trying to change to. Lack of strategy and low risk tolerance leads to too many priorities with not enough investment to move the needle in anything. Quarterly layoffs, but executed quietly team by team so as not to make news. No psychological safety. Talent strategy since covid is to hire externally over internal promotions to gain "functional expertise" therefore difficult to grow your career. Siloed divisions not working towards common goal. Lacks operating model maturity needed for a company of this size likely do to revolving door of execs and priorities. A cash cow company with an identity crisis trying to be an AI innovator. Build vs buy mentality slows them down. Too many exec pet projects that aren't vetted with proper business cases.

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