Expedia Group

• Very good benefits as a package.
• Team mates <3.
• Work-life balance was okay, a mid-level experience.

Worked in the company for a long time, around 5+ years. Originally under their subsidiary VRBO, whereby they moved our team directly under Expedia Group after 2 years. The first 2 years were standard, with high-pressure situations sometimes, but overall, because of the team, a wonderful place to work. After we came under Expedia Group, however, in the pandemic, a lot of problems started. Breaking up our productive team and spreading it out wasn't a wise choice, but we were still productive even with countless obstacles of bureaucracy as managers came and went, and I was put on multiple teams sometimes without a real option. It got to a point where projects were about maintaining legacy systems that were frustrating to deal with and maintain. This gave me pause and I decided to leave the company, even though it was a great time because of only my teammates.

Slow progression also, where people needed to absolutely prove they were worthy of a promotion by doing special things, not considering we delivered above and beyond the needs of the business, with me being part of investigating tech we never used before several times.

Change is good, but not great when it happens too often. Be mindful that you are dealing with human beings and not AI. Even AI doesn't give you the right answer if you change its prompts with vague details too often.