Expedia Group

The benefits are above average, and the budget you get to pay for things like gym memberships, home exercise equipment, etc., is quite generous.

Everything is politics.

Projects are held up for months because of executive infighting and jostling for promotions. Every new exec wants to make their mark, so inevitably they change course as soon as they take over. This happens at least annually and will impact most people even if they aren't directly under that executive.

You will be stuck in a hell of endless migrations. Expedia Group thinks it is like Google, a tech innovator with problems so complex that only they can solve them. This means almost everything is built in-house, even the things EG has no business building, like CI/CD software. If EG was a search engine, it would be Ask Jeeves.

The good engineers either move on to better businesses or get bogged down trying to unpick decades of awful legacy.

If you have a good idea that follows modern best practices, don't expect it to see the light of day. You will be told that that particular thing should belong to some other central EG team and that we just have to wait for them to finish making it. Which will never happen. They will get 45% through the project, realize it's trash, and then start all over.

That said, a broken clock is right twice a day. Sometimes EG will make a sane decision, like switching to Spinnaker over their custom, piece-of-garbage in-house CI/CD tool. But they'll ruin it by making one team the gatekeeper to the entire platform and not allowing innovation from any other teams.

EG is a company that used to talk about "inner-sourcing" everything, but that got brushed under the rug, and now you're expected to "keep in your lane."

Stop re-orging every six months.

Stop centralizing everything; let innovation flow from all over the business.

Stop trying to be like FAANG companies. If your employees wanted to work for them, they would already be there.

You don't have the know-how to build all of our tooling in-house. Buy it or use open source, but your problems are not so unique that everything must be bespoke.