Expedia Group

You'll have the opportunity to work with very large-scale eCommerce challenges. Even though Expedia as a whole has struggled to grow over recent years, there are pockets of excellence. In particular, subsidiaries such as Hotwire, Trip Advisor, and Hotels.com are doing good things, and there is an opportunity to learn and make a difference.

The Expedia.com brand and the Bellevue headquarters are definitely the center of the EXPE universe, and all is not well there.

Turnover is staggering, and a 'Not Invented Here' syndrome, due to the Microsoft heritage, has crippled the technical architecture.

Despite the problems with the mother ship, branch brands/offices are frequently second-guessed and crippled with head count freezes and budget restrictions.

Business executive leadership and technology leadership are frequently not on the same page and often work at odds due to the combination of matrix org structure and geographic dispersion.

In the case of the Dallas office, where Hotels.com is headquartered, the entire technology organization is being nuked in favor of offshore development (despite assurances just a few months ago that nothing of the sort was in the works).

Sr. Executives (SVP and CTO) make all the calls in the technology organization and are often grossly misinformed, leading to reckless decision-making.

Start basing your decisions on performance instead of where people work and what brand they came from. It is supposed to be a results-based culture, but that is certainly not the case.