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Great travel perks, though politics can impact motivation and growth

Applications Engineer II
Former Employee
Worked at Expedia Group for 4 years
August 3, 2015
Bellevue, Washington
4.0
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Pros

Travel benefits are the best! Their 401k is also very competitive. The people I worked with directly were great, and you can build meaningful relationships there.

Cons

The politics were horrendous – at least, it was in my case. I have no clue why companies think it's a good idea to hire mid- and senior-level leadership from outside the company. Those folks have no understanding of the company culture, much less the team they end up leading. This led to multiple examples of folks not getting recognized or promoted that everyone knows should have been, and likewise, folks that needed to be shown the way out, and weren't.

Advice to Management

Please, for the love of everything that is holy, start your hiring at the IC level and promote leadership from within the ranks rather than hire it from outside. One bad apple can spoil the barrel, right?

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