Expedia Group

Expedia has great potential to take advantage of technology for improving its market share and impact in the industry.

Great freedom in terms of work arrangements. People respect your out-of-work commitments (family, pets, sports), which is great.

There is a devopsy culture in the tech teams, and every engineer is getting involved with everything, which is nice and the way forward for any company that needs to scale in people and tech. There's huge use of AWS, which gives you the chance to experiment with and try many different services.

Political and slow to change. Management of career and projects is very, very poor. Actually, there was near to zero career management or goal setting, and of course, no progression. Simple projects are getting over-discussed with countless meetings, creating huge overhead just to keep people busy and make non-technical managers, managing technical projects, feel important.

Covid is not great for the industry and the group, but it is a great chance to improve efficiency and streamline existing processes.

The future of travel is tech-first. Expedia Group brands itself as a tech company, so give space to technical people and let them streamline processes and legacy solutions. Make career paths clear. Give opportunities for people to learn and grow, not just occupy themselves with overcomplicated, tiny problems. Get rid of useless managers whose only skill is their political network and promote great tech and people leaders.