Expedia Group

Nice people at the peer level.

Management by brow-beating. Processes and compartmentalization are very Microsoft-centric (and that is not a compliment). If you have to rely on outside organizations for hardware or virtual machines, you'll be at their mercy, and if your timelines are affected, that's entirely your problem and fault, not theirs. And this will definitely affect your "pay to perform" bonuses and raises.

Advice to directors and higher-level senior management:

You take "pay to perform" too literally. You are way too quick to be punitive for mistakes and way too slow to reward hard work.

You will literally be paralyzed and unable to get anything done, and mired down in mediocre employees, largely like parts of Microsoft are today, if you keep that nonsense up.

If a manager has made every effort to get the hardware and systems they need, and it takes six weeks instead of two, then either back off, help drive it yourself, or take the heat for it. Because you failed to do your job as a leader.