Booking.com reviews

When you relocate the hell begins. You start working in the company with many arrogant people. Couple of trainings are provided and that's all. The favoritism is the key in the relationships. So most of managers are close friends. Most of management is incompetent. A lot of senior developer who don't code at all but poke other people offending people or coasting. Very very bad atmosphere at the office. Very noisy and uncomfortable. The rules against employees. I was surprised how they treat people. The receptionist can say "you're stupid" just for asking questions. I see a lot of burnt out people with mental issues so it becomes an issue to work there. I advice you not to speak with manager because of retaliation. They listen to you and use everything you've said against you. Be aware.

-Downward spiral towards the fall of what I once regarded as a great empire--which it is, but things fall apart with rapid growth and greedy decisions that leave a demoralized and disgruntled front line army a.k.a. the Hotels Department -Unattainable targets set by far away Amsterdam that change at any given moment, sometimes in the middle of the quarter due to error in forecasting by local SAMs -Sometimes even told to abandon our actual goals for bonus structure ENTIRELY to further the advancement of company's main initiatives -Sometimes main initiatives require us to annoy and strongarm partners to the point of making employees feel desperate, upset and pretty much losing every ounce of passion when encountering our upset partners. Leadership team cannot offer any helpful guidance because we try every which way and they know we're pretty much set up for failure but probably can't say it outloud. -Mandated use and tracking of a terrible excuse for an internal, homegrown salesforce (Booking can totally fork over the cash for what a company like Salesforce does best than thinking we should spend our resources and time on a broken system to optimize opportunity and revenue) -Upper hierarchy essentially mandating terribly executed micromanaging tactics that leave the entire local office from top to bottom to not trust anything and anyone -SAMs aren't able to work together, not sure why when they are wonderful individuals and aren't allowed to manage teams due to being overworked and micromanaged themselves -50% travel alongside change to Friday meetings are set up poorly and burn employees out fast -paid below industry standard -Everyone understands that change is constant and inevitable, but what no one gets is how poorly change is handled and communicated by management -On that, transparency and communication have declined significantly over the past year -recruiting is backlogged and can't send the best candidates for such a reputable company or folks realize that they shouldn't even try -Lastly, our HR department which I didn't have any care or opinion for before has truly turned out to be an overworked joke. Seems like they don't have the time or resources to make a true difference and help on a local level