Hotwire Reviews

3.5

63% would recommend to a friend

(225 total reviews)

Nick Graham

100% approve of CEO

46% positive business outlook

Hotwire has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 225 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Hotwire employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Hotel and travel accommodation industry (3.6 stars).

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225 reviews
1.0
15 Aug 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

- Part of brand Expedia - Unique product - Standard market joining offer

Cons

- Company is crazily hiring tonnes of Directors and Sr. Directors in the company. Positions of ground workers like developers, designers, content, analytics remain unfilled. This has led to too much micromanagement, loads of people asking for status and none to do the work!!! In recent days, esp in Engineering seen unnecessary positions created on the fly with a multitude of hierarchy just to secure managements positions. Fun Fact- There is also a Director of TPM and a herd of TPMs for only running standups and sprint meetings!!! - Managers never discuss about career growth with the teams. The company should invest in training for managers, particularly how to promote discussions on career growth of employees. - Hotwire is hiring many former employees from MACY'S as Macy's is downsizing.as a company. Asa result in the quality of recent hires has gone down drastically. - Not the right place for developers, who don't want to play politics. Rampant politics and favoritism in such a small company. - Extremely rare instance of promotions in Engineering org. See frequent promotions and role changes happening in the Product org though. This sucks for developers and engineers!! - Don't promote role changes! Engineering Directors and Managers highly dissuade any idea or discussions of role change.

1.0
10 Oct 2017

Friendly advice - Stay away from joining Hotwire !!

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

1. Being part of Expedia family, you can say you work at Expedia as Hotwire brand is not well known. 2. Office location is good.

Cons

1. For career growth and promotion, you need to be in good book of directors/managers. 2. Every year or two layoffs happens as business is going down. 3. People play blame game if something goes wrong. 4. Lake of motivation and all smart people are leaving or already left. 5. No value of engineers even though it's so called tech company. 6. No RSU and No competitive market salary.

1.0
28 Oct 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great location in the financial district; solid ties with Expedia guarantee stability and job security no matter what; great work-life balance

Cons

Leadership changes have turned a great company into a poisonous one; executives spend time bad mouthing each other rather than trying to turn around an outdated product; turnover is very high and hiring is a challenge given the bad reputation within the Bay Area; employee morale is at its lowest, don’t be fooled by sudden waves of positive reviews…

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