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Okay. Work environment with a lot of red tape and unneeded processes

Applications Engineer II
Current Employee
Has worked at Expedia Group for less than 1 year
May 17, 2011
3.0
No CEO Opinion
Pros

Overall, fairly competent people in some areas. If you work in a decent division, it will be a good experience. Some divisions are more turbulent than others.

A wide array of job choices to choose from. A large company and overall employee treatment is decent. The illusion of job security is quite good.

Cons

Over-populated workspaces, long work hours, and poor life/work balance as of late.

Some groups suffer from a lack of knowledge about their processes or inherited systems.

Some personnel are much less knowledgeable than you would expect.

Huge WAMU influx.

Choking political policies that go against an agile dot-com mentality.

Advice to Management

Get rid of the dead weight chiefs and get more "indians." Don't let a slow and steady, bank, no-risk-taking mentality kill the required agility and fast change needed by a high-tech industry. We push code to provide a wide variety of travel services. The travel industry has what seems like daily changes and is constantly growing in all the different ways to travel and enjoy a remote location. We're not doing loan risk analysis or general money handling and financials, which would warrant a more cautious and bureaucratic approach.

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