Becky Waller | Program Manager in Bellevue, WA I didn’t take a traditional route getting to Expedia Group. I’ve never coded anything. I’m not techy. I didn’t go to business school, nor did I ever think the idea sounded appealing until entering the corporate world. Before joining the Expedia Group family as a Program Manager […]

Toby Willis | Software Engineer in Test II in Seattle, WA Did you know there are over 1 Billion people with disabilities in the World? …that’s like more than 15% of the population. I’m learning these stats because I lost my vision due to a degenerative retina condition known as Leber Congenital Amaurosis. You can also […]

Norman Law | Sr. Director, Global Product Management in Bellevue, WA What does your typical workday look like? Most days, I meet with many of my peers to discuss what our plans are for improving customer experience. Usually, these discussions are around what the major customer pain points are and how we can address them. […]

Nick Andrews | Senior Director, Market Mangement in Bangkok, Thailand Our Guiding Principles inspire us to do great work every day in Expedia Group, we talk about them a lot and so I’m often asked which Guiding Principle is the most important. In reality, they all are important since together they shape how we work – […]

Trevor Livingston | Principal Architect, HomeAway in Austin, TX How HomeAway is utilizing npm modules and schema partials to create GraphQL components for self-orchestrating apps and services HomeAway uses the simplicity and flexibility of GraphQL to insulate applications from change and accelerate UI and API development.   For a little over two years, we‘ve been busy […]

Dorine Rassaian | Global Product Manager III in Bellevue, WA What does your typical workday look like? Since most of my stakeholders are in other time zones, the first thing I do every morning is read through emails and Slack messages to see if I received anything urgent overnight. The rest of the day is (mostly) […]

Bridie Slater | Recruiter in London, UK I spent much of my youth living by the ‘You could get hit by a bus tomorrow’ theory. As wonderful as this theory is, reality set in when my dad sat me down and said, “But what happens if you never get hit by a bus?”. It is […]

Kayla Chance | Employer Brand Digital Media Specialist, HomeAway in Austin, Texas 1. HomeAway is actually part of Expedia Group. By working here, you get the best of both worlds – access to lots of data AND the opportunity to directly impact the vacation rental marketplace. 2. Our “Domain Free” Slack channel is the most […]

Anurag Banka | Software Development Engineer II in Gurgaon, India In this post, I would like to give a glimpse of a practical application of micro-service on a monolith product which leads to better team productivity, customer experience, and product scalability. Monolith are services; which are not easy to scale, hard to maintain, and can become […]

Angela Page | e-Commerce Manager, Wotif in Sydney, Australia What does your typical workday look like? What I love about my role is that a typical workday doesn’t exist. In eCommerce, we are responsible for the performance of our point of sale (POS) and interact many teams. As a result, I could spend the day […]