Pros: Everyone is friendly. The company really cares about work/life balance.

Cons: The pay may be slightly lower compared to other big tech companies.

Pros: Expedia is a company that truly cares for its employees. It fosters a feeling of trust and collaboration between employees. Throughout my time there, I felt that the way my managers treated their directs was one of utmost respect and deep care. If something is going wrong, you will be given feedback and advice very quickly so you can adjust whatever needs to be adjusted. As a result, the people I have worked with oftentimes mirror the way they are treated by their managers, and everyone will go out of their way to help you succeed and make your journey a pleasant one. People tend to be well-versed, and engineers are definitely not the stereotypical reclusive programmers we've heard countless jokes on.

Cons: The biggest downside I can think of is the lack of innovation and how risk-averse the company has become. Unless it's coming from the ground up, teams can end up working on some very minor tasks that are neither disruptive nor truly valuable for the business. If you have a team that promotes innovation and a manager that is willing to push it upward, then you will have a great time; otherwise, you may end up being bored and unmotivated. In my opinion, the company is clearly not innovating enough and is losing its standing. But instead of trying to tackle this, upper management has been reshuffling organizations around in countless reorgs; it's become dizzying.

Pros: The tech is good, and there's a lot of opportunity to contribute with new ways and new paradigms. There's a culture where trying something new is encouraged, even if failure is part of the equation. Even today, there's tremendous growth, amazing cooperation within the engineering organization, and fantastic perks for employees. The people are smart, driven, and focused on real solutions with meaningful results for customers and partners.

Cons: Much of the leadership is absolutely clueless about the possibilities in front of them, leading to vague requirements, urgent demands that come out of nowhere, and little to no adoption of new, innovative projects throughout the larger group. All the big wigs making decisions are concentrated in one office, which leads to awful communication and planning with other offices. New ideas that relate to travelling at large but are not directly, explicitly linked to selling more hotels are seen as unproductive and pushed aside, counter to the guiding principles the CEO likes to talk about so much.