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Great benefits and relaxed engineering culture

Senior Software Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Expedia Group for 6 years
May 14, 2017
Bellevue, Washington
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Pros

Lots of employee perks. Strong benefits. Decent work/life balance.

Cons

Especially in an engineering role, it's far better to work under a "brand" or other profit center. While the pressure may be a bit higher, you will get more funding sooner for improvements, and technical leadership is more likely to test ideas.

This is considerably less true within IT, eCP, and other shared services.

Advice to Management

For over 5 years, I've witnessed the transition from a 50/50 tech company/travel company to 30% tech and 70% travel. I get it: the tech is a means to an end goal of selling travel. Though with some major technology boulders to overcome, you need a more prescriptive strategy than "make sure it scales."

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