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The Jesus

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The Jesus
Mar 19, 2017 14 Comments

So it's obvious by the vast amount of Expedia bashing on here, the company is not highly regarded in tech world. Consensus is we are extremely underpaid, lots of sub par people working there, incompetent leadership, etc.

So let's hear it. Leave out the customer service stuff or front of site issues you may have experienced if you ever booked there. I am more interested in hearing about the tech side of things and working culture. There are a lot of people in the Expedia lounge who are miserable as f#%k, so this could be a good chance for a former employee to post up as well if you really hated it. Maybe leadership will read this and actually do some self reflecting.

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  • Amazon / Ops
    liar

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    I m a liar 🀣🀣
     liar
    I worked at expedia for 2 years. My pay was 0.5x of what i make today. I was the top performer in my org. I saw lot of incompetent people in my org, so always ended up fixing their issues, or completing their work. Tech stack is a joke.

    Every team has thier own build pipeline. There is no company wide initiative to build tools for helping people do their daily activities

    Build pipelines were riddled with permission issues. Hosts missing, host down Etc......

    Ordering hardware takes 6 months. So you can slack till then nothing to push into production

    Deployment process is laughable. We need to write a tech page explaining the ops guy, how to do deployment step by step. Always had hosts down, dissappear.

    Capacity planning does not even exist. People just put more and more hosts as they were scared that some might go down.

    Aws migration was pulled back in priority due to improper application design which resulted in slight budget increase

    I have seen dba team lose data in production

    Internet was switched off for two weeks due to some breach( so employees were asked to work in dark for 2 weeks πŸ™„)

    Expedia website has gone down and remains down for hours.

    Expedia has only one datacenter and serve entire world traffic with it. This alone tell expeia is not a tech company


    In my org, i only saw big propmotions
    Vp to svp
    Sr dir to vp
    Dir to senior director

    But the tech team which made the cost saving of 2 million was given peanuts.

    I mainly left due to low comp and lack of growth because upper management was busy promoting themselves. Expedia offered me 20k more in base and 50k additional money, but i left
    Mar 21, 2017 1
  • Expedia
    LhlK83

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    LhlK83
    no two people's experiences are alike. i m happy, technically motivated, look forward to going every morning, not having dull day, well compensated..and no, i do not believe in brown nosing or cronyism.
    people spread negetive eagerly but positive relunctantly. so i m happy expedian with no inferior complex compared to other tech company employees.
    Mar 19, 2017 2
    • It also depends on how long you've been with the company. I've been around for 8 years and the difference between what it was just 2 years ago vs now is astonishing
      Mar 19, 2017
    • Amazon / Ops
      liar

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       liar
      Sir you have no idea whats its like in other companies, have you worked elsewhere ? You need something to compare and realize difference
      Mar 21, 2017
  • Microsoft / Product
    2017B

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     2017B
    I have said this on the other Expedia thread as well -- I was there from 2008-2010, the work itself was challenging and I was learning a lot. But, the management was very white people dominated. There was clear evidence that my career will not grow. Major reason to quit was my manager who used to micromanage. The work hours were bad. The Directors were extremely rude. Lacked vision & direction. Everyone was constantly scared, and had to show that they are doing meaningful work. Not inclusive of other cultures.
    Mar 19, 2017 2
    • Expedia / Eng
      eMain

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       eMain
      thanks for sharing. it will be easy for Expedia mgmt to dismiss this feedback since it was 7 years ago. any current Expedians seeing these issues? Management in EWE Bellevue is pretty diverse today, but there is some micromanagement and the vision below Aman's level is pretty narrow and siloed.
      Mar 19, 2017
    • Expedia
      1111111

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      1111111
      definitely different now than what is recounted here, but probably team dependent. still lots of bad teams here
      Mar 21, 2017
  • Expedia
    Meh-hahaha

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    Meh-hahaha
    The biggest issue is career stagnation in tech. We hire a lot of less experienced people and treat them as cheap workforce rather than developing and promoting talent in house . Part of the reason why this is happening is because the company has become top heavy. There's no reason each engineer should have 8 layers of management sitting on top of them. With that many managers/directors political games become detrimental to progress.
    Mar 19, 2017 0
  • Expedia
    CKSW10

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    CKSW10
    I've been at Expedia for over 10 years (minus a couple years on 'external rotation') and I'm really happy here. I can think of over 15 people who have left and come back... and I think that's really telling.

    I feel technically challenged... and while I may be a tad under paid, the work-life balance is very much worth it.
    Mar 21, 2017 1
    • Amazon / Ops
      liar

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       liar
      I have seen atleast 10 join and leave immediately, because of lack of tech, thats also telling. May be those 15 came back, because they could not survive elsewhere ?
      Mar 21, 2017