Amadeus Software Development Engineer reviews

4.1

95% would recommend to a friend

(138 total reviews)
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Luis Maroto

99% approve of CEO

97% positive business outlook

Software Development Engineer employees have rated Amadeus with 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 138 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Development Engineer professionals have an excellent working experience there. Amadeus is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Development Engineer professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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2.0
Jun 30, 2014
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Pros

a family-friendly company - stable job with a lot of free time, not demanding at all

Cons

ambitious, dynamic people with a high standard - stay away the most incompetent 'developers' and 'managers' I have ever encountered very political on all levels - distrust, trash talking & backstabbing are common

2.0
Jun 10, 2014
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Pros

+ Not very demanding, steady job. + Very relaxed atmosphere (and I mean _very_), a typical day of a typical Amadeus developer: 9:30 - arrival to work 10:00 - 10:15 - coffee break 12:00 - 13:30 - lunch 13:30 - 14:00 - coffee break 16:00 - 16:15 - coffee break 18:00 - go home + Great work/life balance. + Really sunny area. + Mostly friendly people.

Cons

- Not a very demanding job - it's not a place for achievers and dynamic people. - Just like at any other mediocre big company - politics, many small-minded people. - Most are not exactly experts on coding or management. - Severe lack of management and people skills on all levels - confrontation avoidance, lack of communication, occasional yelling. - People trash talk each other behind their backs and form cliques, management plays along. - Very very slow career progression or none at all. - For many people Amadeus is the only employer that they ever had. - Core technology is quite oldish and in-house, and over-all not very exciting. - Typical work distribution: 45% - bug investigation 45% - meetings about specifications and work coordination with other teams 10% - actual coding - Serious problems with transportation in general; rush hours in Sophia are the really bad. - All around it's nothing but villages and small towns (!!!). - Salaries for developers are quite low. - Everything takes ages. - Many people, often straight from universities, have far more confidence than knowledge - it's like working in Idiocracy. - Distrust, backstabbing, slander and fakeness are more common than at any company that I worked ever before.

2.0
Jun 10, 2014
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Pros

A good place to start as a graduate since you learn a lot about industry and working in a critical application. Also, as a graduate you get raise every 6 months so after two years you will earn more than £40k. The place is really easy going and as long as you do the required work, no one cares how much time you spend on a break etc. Bonus around 8%-10% 28 days of holiday per year

Cons

Location is really bad. It's located near Heathrow Airport so nothing around besides a pub, really noisy outside the building and it will take a lot of time commuting to get there even from west London. There is not much room for development. You may be lucky and work in a new project but most probably you will be 90% maintenance - 10% development. After two years when you finish graduate scheme and are promoted as Software Engineer, you will take yearly raise in the region of 3.5%. No training is provided. They expect you to figure out everything yourself. Code is really messy, we are talking about methods having thousands of lines of code.

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