Pros: - Overall work-life balance is great with flexible work hours and schedules, but this can be team dependent. - Generally very friendly and nice people with a mostly relaxed and laid-back work environment. - Decent benefits including: * Travel and wellness reimbursement * Travel discounts * Standard 401k matching * Good vacation policy * Healthcare * Matching charitable donations - A "Test and Learn" culture makes data the main driving force for product decisions.

Cons: - Generally poor middle management and heavy politics at management levels. - Some engineering teams have bad ratios of technical product managers/engineering managers to developers, which creates too much overhead and slows initiatives down. - Very unclear promotion paths and requirements. This causes a clash between diversity initiatives and the meritocracy that the company preaches, and can lead to a sentiment of unfairness during promotion cycles. - Overall average engineering quality, with some exceptions. Unable to maintain solid talent, as they leave for other companies in the area (seems like Amazon is becoming a top destination). - Expedia advertises itself as a tech company, but the culture of average compensation makes the company lag behind tech companies in the area. - Constantly playing catch-up to competitors, which creates fewer opportunities to pursue features that innovate or distinguish Expedia in the market. - Some product decisions feel short-sighted. Just because conversion numbers are good does not mean it is good in the long run.

Pros: My teammates were really good.

Cons: Pay is low compared to industry standards. Diversity is bad. I heard someone who was laid off during her pregnancy. Ironically, only non-Indians were laid off for that team.

Pros: Scale is great, opportunities are great, and with some recent changes, even better. There are some tough problems to solve, and I'd argue the Titanic is shifting direction.

Cons: Still haven't shaken the whole Microsoft way of doing things. It's getting better. Think waterfall with some pockets of Agile/adaptive methodologies all the way from planning to delivery, with monster release nights.