Expedia Group

Great office view and coffee machines, matching a tier-1 level (in-house) perks.

Toxic Culture: Here are a few of my experiences.

• Constant pressure to prove yourself and maintain a pedestal image.
• Most engineering managers lack even a brief technical understanding, and you might report to a Functional or Business Analyst or simply a people manager acting as a Senior Engineering Manager. If so, run, because they are only saving themselves out there by hook or crook.
• Team peers feel entitled to question your leave plans and the motive behind your sick leaves.

Expedia's middle layer of PMs is frustrated with upper management but lacks the courage to speak up. Instead, some of them share their frustration in one-on-ones and team meetings with their direct reports, then subtly test their loyalty, leaving teams confused, helpless, and burned out.

The whole point is they have access to more, and their focus is networking and to save themselves while putting their direct reports on pedestals with half-cooked stories of frustrations, leaving them in isolation.