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Good company, but your mileage may vary

Software Development Engineer
Former Employee
Worked at Expedia Group for less than 1 year
November 10, 2016
4.0
RecommendsPositive Outlook
Pros

Lots of company events (celebration for Chinese New Year; anniversary celebration; brought in the Humane Society bus sometimes).

Good compensation.

Productive team.

QA and code review mean it's hard to ship a bug.

My PMs were AMAZING and taught me that PM-ing is actually incredibly useful when done well.

Cons

YMMV--it seems like every team experience is incredibly different. The tech/IT desk is terrible at what they do and pretty transparently sexist. Expect to have to Google your problems.

For a huge company that onboards a lot of people regularly, the onboarding process was ridiculously bad. Documentation isn't up-to-date. Everyone has heard of the problem you're having, but no one remembers how to fix it.

Similarly, there are a lot of undocumented code requirements; you end up getting knocked back in code review for requirements that you've never even heard of before.

Advice to Management

Work on the onboarding process and support for newer team members. Try to apply lessons learned across the board from teams that run well and are pleasant to work on.

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