Pros
Sound business, travel is fun to work on, the people who work here are smart, passionate and dedicated. If you're a techy and you've not been exposed to e-commerce, we're a great place to expose that side to you. We're a huge website that runs into all sorts of fun and interesting technology challenges as it relates to running a business online in the travel space. Employees can voice their opinions; however, some courage is needed to do that at times. If you're proactive and highly responsible, Expedia can definitely be a great place for you to work. People are constantly pushing themselves to be better.
Kontras
It's definitely no longer an entrepreneurial atmosphere; it's a more mature company with more process and rules to follow than when we first left the mothership. The benefits for Tech people are average when compared with Google or Microsoft. We're too small a company to be able to drastically shift your career from square one or to move into a new group to experience working with brand new people. We're in a competitive location for tech people and we can very easily lose them to other tech focused companies; many tech folks aren't as passionate about the product as they are about technologies they get to work on and we're not big enough to allow for the types of vast investments in technology that a Google or Microsoft can afford to offer. Sometimes, work/life balance can suffer due to being a web site and being open 24 hours a day.
