Expedia Group

Microsoft-like culture. Good working environment. They invest a lot in outside consultants and trainers, and offer full-time employees, vendors, and contractors lots of learning opportunities.

Good benefits for full-time employees include travel agent perks such as discounts on hotel, airfare, and car rental, free admission to parks and museums, familiarization trips, and other typical regular travel agent perks and benefits.

Dirty politics. Extremely high turnover, just like a revolving door, among full-time employees, vendors, and contractors.

They had three major rounds of layoffs when I was there (and even now, according to current recruiters I spoke to). These included full-time employees, vendors, contractors, and even Directors, Senior Managers, and Executives who had been there for many years. Even their CTO is gone now.

Full-time employees are often paranoid and act in fear because they are afraid of losing their jobs to offshore vendors or contractors amidst mass layoffs. Therefore, they don't share much information and don't show up at meetings you invite them to. They only give you just barely enough security access and information to do your job.

No free beverages. Lots of outdated and legacy software, technologies, and equipment.

Promote a culture of sharing and collaboration. Value people over bottom-line profits and dollar signs. Trust and treat your employees, vendors, and contractors like real people, like human beings. Perhaps you will have less turnover, higher employee morale, and eliminate so much waste and cost of hiring, firing, and training new employees.