Booking.com reviews

4.1

80% would recommend to a friend

(7,608 total reviews)
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Glenn Fogel

70% approve of CEO

67% positive business outlook

Booking.com has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 7,608 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Booking.com 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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2.0
Jul 27, 2017

Great company, terrible culture

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Pros

Easy job - Monthly, biannual, and annual events - Good to have on the CV

Cons

You will learn from your job in the first couple of months and then you will indulge in very strong politics scheme. Promotion and career progress is hardly ever merit based in my experience. Lots of dead-ends.

2.0
May 30, 2017
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Pros

Good benefits, lunch and casual dress. Monthly parties that are a brilliant way to get to know your team mates and the rest of the office. Amazing people from all over the world

Cons

Too many ridiculous incentives that end up nowhere. You're supposed to do your job and hit targets but also follow the booking.com version of Facebook for news and updates as there is no general email sent to everyone with the most important updates. Not knowing the most recent changes (and there are many) will be seen as a thing you definitely need to improve. If the management wants to get rid of you, they will find a way as their list of misconducts is non-exhaustive which basically means they can say anything is misconduct and then dismiss you there and then. The company should also drop the quantity over quality approach they started this year with the new registering partners

5.0
May 13, 2017
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Pros

- everything is done with A/B tests, it's very easy to implement your feature without a fear that it will break something; but it doesn't mean that if the metrics are negative, your change will be 100% rejected, that's what I love about working here, I've never heard 'it's red, so forget about it': if you can explain it, everyone is here to listen and help - really smart devs and designers, ready to help you - lots of learning, there's a dedicated learning center building: just choose any training and go for it - work/life balance: if you're often in the office after 6pm, your manager will ask you, if everything is ok - monitoring is really good: every developer can rollout the code, revert any change you consider harmful, etc.. - tolerance for errors: it's ok make a mistake, you won't be fired even if you break everything, just be smart and learn from mistakes - all devs, designers and other tech people are business aware: it's checked in interviews and everyone knows why we're doing the feature or not - career opportunities, clear instructions how to get level up and what to expect from each level - choose your next team, internal job board, you can see what's happening there before you switch - canteen is awesome, there are fresh juices and a lot of food every day, takeaway meals if you prefer to eat at your desk - competitive salary, yearly bonuses if you overperform - visa for 5 years, relocation to Amsterdam, legal, tax and housing help

Cons

- the code is worse than you might expect: imagine a 10-year old mix of javascript and perl sometimes supported by designers with differently configured editors; own syntax, defeating the purpose of any smart code editor, 'we need to think more if we really need ES6 ...in 2017' - that's really what it is: no code style, no tests, no reviews, not working code quality tools, huge css full of !importants - frequent rotations and structural team changes: if you ask somebody how it works, the response most likely will be: I don't know, I'm new here, let me check it for you - I don't know, everything else is perfect; if such code doesn't offend you - it's the best place to work

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