Booking.com Full Stack Developer reviews

Rapidly removing benefits, and being sneaky with it - using political weasel words to excuse removing them; and stating they'll come back bigger and better. But they don't. Clique based promotion system; the company desperately states "no show ponies. only work horses" - whilst promoting show ponies and ignoring work horses. Leadership team who literally laugh off any suggestions for improvement or causes for concern. Horrendous tech stack; lack of testing/responsibilities and a poor management structure. Really bad sense of job satisfaction from most of the colleagues I talk to. All in all, a great company rapidly heading in the wrong direction.

-Extremely outdated techstack, as a backender you may get a chance to work on some cool systems, however still most of your day will be focused on digging in the spaghetti perl code, you'll not be able to transfer your knowledge (almost) anywhere. -A/B testing obsession, making a smallest change will require running weeks long experiments to validate if it's useful for the customers, not worth it if you like to iterate quickly. -Incompetent middle management will put you down, never before have I seen so many people struggling with mental health issues (depression/anxiety) -Non-existing HR - the salaries are so screwed that new hires can get up to 15k EUR/year more than people who work in the company for 5-8 year. Recently some of the developers left, and came back within a few months to get their salaries readjusted. -As a frontender is a NO-GO zone, you'll not do ANYTHING useful. -You'll be working with tons of people from 3rd world countries, diversity you say? Not really, we hire them because it's harder to change a job quickly when you need to worry about your visa/family. Most of them wait 7 years till the magic barrier of obtaining a Dutch citizenship. I came as a motivated individual, been 'strongly overperforming' in terms of Booking performance for almost 2 years and left, depressed and tired of everything I seen here. Please, don't do this to your career.