I just booked my trip to San Jose/Sunnyvale with Amazon’s travel system and it said my max budget for hotels literally leaves me in a fucking motel off the freeway. I get it, frugality and all, but at least spring for the fucking holiday inn or something. God I hate this company sometimes.
I have always stayed in amazing hotels in the EU.
Take that lodging budget with a grain of salt. I’ve never had issues going above it (within reason).
Why would a manager want you to be frugal? Are they judged on the teams travel budget?
Corporate policy and corporate set rates, going above budget requires approval
Book it on your own dime and then expense it. That's what I do. I never use the booking tool. The tool doesn't know one from another. It just looks for average price and if there are a lot of motels that will be what it considers budget.
Genius, thanks
Not so fast sir. We fired a guy for doing that when I worked at amazon.
Are you a SWE? Curious what do you do that requires travel?
We do our PI planning in person
Really? Lol i always flew business back in pre covid days
Amazon would never. Coach no matter the distance. Had plenty of colleagues go to India in economy.
Metas is pretty good. $300/50/ni normal locations for hotel, $450/night high cost hotels (nyc, sf, etc), before tax. Usually enough for all but 4 seasons, unless there’s a discount or off weekend. Also let’s you do Airbnbs. $70ish/day per diem and biz class upgrade for flights more than 3 or 4 thousand miles. You keep all points. Biz justification during covid is getting tougher and I doubt that’ll change. But still restively light requirements.
I’ve done the same and more a lot actually at Amazon. Never had an issue and traveled a lot.
manager told me to get a 4am flight to avoid booking a hotel at all
Wow. That's a new low for Google
Heck no