Amadeus reviews

4.0

79% would recommend to a friend

(4,382 total reviews)
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Luis Maroto

80% approve of CEO

67% positive business outlook

Amadeus has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 4,382 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Amadeus employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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1.0
Sep 15, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

If you're lucky and proposed a position in one of their middleware departments you might tackle with some interesting problems. If not, just don't take the job, it's not worth the cons.

Cons

Unless you come from one of the top French engineering great school, you will always be seen as a second class player. As a consequence, lots of experienced developers get frustrated and leave the company after 2 or 3 years (contractor and staff alike) so that remaining engineers are very average, not really passionate with their jobs and only sticking with Amadeus to enjoy outdoors in the French riviera (9:30am-5:30pm + 2h break is not uncommon). The company isn't really agile and still struggling with legacy technologies (they claim they got rid of the legacy mainframe infrastructure but they didn't), so don't expect working on shinny bleeding edge technologies and be prepared to deal with boring stuff like TPF, TN3270 ... Senior employee (especially on the operation side) are unhelpful since they don't want to see their stuff decommissioned and have to work on new things. Dealing with employees (including management) who have no idea what they're doing isn't uncommon. On an average I spent 70% of my time doing maintenance work. Quality process is on a per team basis and almost in-existent.

1.0
May 6, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

They pay above market rate. If you want to retire then the location in the south of France is lovely. The atmosphere is laid back.

Cons

The technology is old and the idea of upgrading never precedes beyond talk. No architecture, design or thought goes into the software so it is a mess. Communication is astonishingly bad, both from sales to development, from managers to works and even between teams that are sitting beside each other. There is more interest in playing politics and blame than fixing anything. Management are clueless and seem unwilling or unable to do anything useful.

2.0
Apr 13, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Multicultural environment, many different nationalities working together. Holiday period and other fringe benefits.

Cons

Mismatch between Company's values preached and values that employees perceive. Top management's attention focused on their own personal interests. Lack of innovation. Business model stagnated and difficult to sustain. Employees bored, ignored and losing the sense of their jobs.

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