Expedia Group

• Nice London office, centrally located.
• Coworkers are nice.
• Great work-life balance.
• Chilled culture.
• Some talented people, but it really varies.
• Varies a lot depending on your division and group.

Depending on the group you're in, but where I'm the senior leadership is terrible, resulting in a change in manager every 6-12 months. Some EMs have no engineering or managerial experience, or they have someone with only a few years of being a software engineer become an EM. This has a cascade effect where projects are chaotic, disorganized, and long overdue. People who openly admit they do barely any work and know nothing get promoted. I've seen people who have no CS background and only started using a proper IDE 6 months ago, and they do bare coding work, get promoted to SDEIII. While the rest of us who worked hard and improved our knowledge and do a lot of work don't. There are people who are so incompetent and do barely any work but are relatively senior and paid well. There's so much chaos and disorganization, it's becoming a joke. No wonder the company is losing its competitiveness. This is a sinking ship.

They don't value good engineering here. Business, TPMs with no tech background are the rock stars and get promoted and paid lots and are treated like rock stars and act like project leads, even though all they do is organize meetings and do dictation, if that. I saw a TPM promoted to Senior with only 3 years of TPM experience without tech background/education and another to Director of Eng without tech background/education.

Despite this, you'd think they can hire someone really nice, but no, they're unprofessional, gossipy, and toxic.

It's an insult and a farce while very good engineers doing the hard work take years to get to Senior, and we get impatient and leave.

It's okay for a short time.

Change leadership at VP level. Hire appropriate people with the right backgrounds and experience in the right roles. Get rid of TPMs.