ex Expedia employee here<p>I remember the long period of no CEO after the previous one went to Uber and Barry Diller, I think he was chairman of the board, was kinda at the helm<p>eventually there was an all hands where it was announced Peter Kern would be the new CEO<p>his qualifications? "we used to play golf together"<p>the old boys club vibe was next level<p>which is like, ok, it always is, but they weren't even trying to tastefully hide it, they literally just made it clear on the record first thing<p>to be clear, I'm not saying Barry or Peter did a bad job (nor a good one) - as a cog, I usually find C level news and initiatives distractions that merit little attention<p>I do remember though how Barry said Expedia's work life balance was all balance no work<p>and how Peter would phone in all hands from his castle in Colorado where he was spending time with his family to tell everyone how important it was people wound down remote work and started coming in to the office again (AFAIK he himself was very rarely in office in any meaningful capacity)<p>would I call it a well-run company? no, not really, but neither are most other companies, lol. most execs seem to have no better or worse idea what they're doing running a company than the average employee would.
>In a statement provided to PhocusWire, the company said, “Rathi Murthy, Chief Technology Officer, and Sreenivas Rachamadugu, Senior Vice President, Core Services Product & Engineering, are no longer employed at Expedia Group. This decision is the result of a violation of Company policy.<p>Does this mean they had a relationship
>*This is a developing story and will be updated.<p>Hard to know what to say without engaging in the very speculation they are hoping to avoid. But apparently there's more details coming.<p>In the absence of those though, this feels rare to me, for such a thing to either (1) happen at all or to (2) have this degree of visibility.<p>Are high level executives getting fired all the time for violating internal company policies that are something short of being against the law, and we're just not hearing about it? I suspect not, or at least, when they are there is not often press releases about it.
So wild that this article got flagged. Wonder why people want to memory hole this. Even Bloomberg is reporting this.<p><a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/news/expedia-cto-senior-engineering-leader-214424191.html" rel="nofollow">https://finance.yahoo.com/news/expedia-cto-senior-engineerin...</a>
Does Expedia have a lot of contract work force or offshoring presence? Maybe, kickbacks between these execs and such offshoring companies/staffing companies could be one reason.
Some nobodies at a bottom of the barrel Fortune 500 company get shit canned is not news worthy.<p>C-levels get canned all the time yet these 2 get attention. What am I missing?