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Good Culture, Little Recognition

Software Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Expedia Group for 4 years
January 15, 2018
Seattle, Washington
4.0
RecommendsNeutral OutlookApproves of CEO
Pros

Culture and people are great to work with. Everyone comes together to solve problems instead of playing the blame game. Work-life balance is good. Travel and vacation benefits are great.

Cons

Even though colleagues appreciate your work, getting recognition and visibility is very hard, and you constantly have to make efforts to get visibility.

The promotion process is slow and based on biased opinions or an old-school style of "he's in line, hence he gets it" mentality.

Promotion is based on how much visibility you have versus how much impact you make.

Sometimes you feel taken for granted.

Pay is lower compared to some other big tech companies.

Advice to Management

If you want to be known as good management, please be fair in providing people the opportunities they deserve or ask for.

If employees are told by their managers, "I have recommended you for this upcoming project, but the decision is not in my hand," then it seems like management is just giving orders to the managers and not taking their inputs.

When managers tell employees, "You are doing a phenomenal job, but others are in line for promotion," and that "waiting (for your turn) is the only way and that's what A and B had to go through as well," then how is management improving to being a growth mindset? It is still stuck in a fixed mindset.

Promotion should be performance-based and not time-based.

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