Booking.com reviews

Bear with me for the long list with Real Examples as well. 1. They live on experiments for everything which is the reason for not much feature development and You will just end up changing if conditions or so just small things. 2. They have an obsession with Perl which is the dinosaur Language. If you think well how bad can it be. Just google it man!!!! 3. This Company used to be great and had developed some awesome systems but that is not the case anymore. Any company mind you, any company can easily take it down with aggressive marketing and tech development. 4. You come in and run and talk around like stupids to people and again interviewing and begging them to take into their teams. 5. They will ramble about open culture and in fact people prefer their own team members to be of their own country people or races. So much for open culture. 6. About helpful culture and all, Noooo you keep pinging people here and no one replies. Never ever in my past 5 companies I saw this much hostile environment. 7. Do yourself a favour and don't ruin your life by coming here... In the end they don't even pay that well to be able to bear all this nuisance atleast. So, run for your life -------------------------------------------------------------- Example: Apparently these guys have an onboarding program which they boast about but actually is a complete waste of time, skills and resources. The so called OnBoarding Leads will tell you that they will find you the team and some even dislike the fact of you going and talking to people for teams. But apparently after weeks, they will be like what!!! You didn't find the team. Should I worry???? So, you have to able to read people minds before landing up here. Don't forget to take a course in Psychology and talking gibberish in case you do come.

- Software Developers are second class citizens, they are seen as 'Developers' not 'Engineers'. - No CTO for more than a year, upper management is not addressing the present issues. They are just keep lying and avoiding challenging questions during AMAs. One example is: someone asked the leadership about why the glassdoor rating is so low? They have answered that the company have a good rating (3.1) and the reason it's not great is other departments. But when you filter reviews with keyword 'Developer' you will see the Development rating is 2.4 and actually this department is having the biggest problems. - Mid level management is terrible, you can find out designers/copy writers/hr people there. There was even a presentation from one of those about how to manage people whom you don't understand work of. They don't understand developers and just make life terrible for developers and during performance reviews you will get a random score thanks to these people. - Senior/principal developers are blocking all the innovation and company is stuck with old tech and a terrible set of tools. Propose a new language or start a new project and Perl dinosaurs will come after you and block your project. - There are no code reviews or unit/integration tests. Deployments are manual you have to spent hours and hours to deploy your changes and test everything manually. Development tools and environment is terrible. Mediocre developers are always there to break the development environment by pushing their codes without testing and they get away with this thanks you mid level management. - This company is not a tech company at all, you will see it's struggling around this all the time. The company tries to build new products and fails miserably. The containers infrastructure is being build for more than two years and they keep revamping it before reaching to the usable state. - Failures are justified with 'Learnings' all the time and there is no accountability. - People are very selfish and only think about their own interests because of broken performance evaluation and reward processes. The management is either failing to see this or they are doing the same thing. Product Owners will justify stupid, broken ideas that will keep them alive or help grow their head count. Manager of software developers will take stupid technical decisions even though they are incompetent just for their own good and result will be very bad for the company and developers working under them. Some developers will keep lying and coasting doing minimum work and their team will not get this, it will only frustrate other developers around. - Developer experience is terrible, no good tools/processes and also they install spyware on your computer to track everything you do. - There are also really good people around but they leave for better opportunities, the company is failing to retain the talent it has, only the worst people or people who are waiting to finish their 5 years to get a european passport will stay. - Most of my colleagues were depressed and I have seen lots of people going to a burnout leave. - There is no clear career opportunities, promotions depend on drinking buddies.