Booking.com reviews

4.1

80% would recommend to a friend

(7,584 total reviews)
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Glenn Fogel

71% approve of CEO

68% positive business outlook

Booking.com has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 7,584 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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1.0
Oct 20, 2018

CSE

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Pros

The pay was decent as in a bit higher than minimum wage depending on the city you are working in Transportation Benefit , Fitness Reimbursements, Quarterly Bonus (sometimes), 22 paid days off a year.

Cons

Management is VERY VERY disorganized, inexperienced and biased. They constantly hire externally and there is no way to move up in the company unless you kiss butt and agree with all of the incorrect things they say. -They constantly ask for feedback but when it’s given, you’re in a vulnerable position because they WILL use what you said against you and a target will be on your back. Its all about FAVOURITISM here not experience, skill, drive and hard work. - The managers and Team Leads are always gossiping amongst each other. - They let go a lot of great staff over the last year because they voiced their opinon and replace them with people who are desperate and will take the job just to get their papers. This office is now filled with people on VISAs. Nothing against the employees just the management because they know these people will stay. If you ask people in the office on VISAs if they like the job they will tell you that they really dont but they need to stay in this company in order to help with being able to stau in the country. Very sad. - They constantly have an eye on you and make sure you KNOW this. - They say things like its not about the numbers but that’s a lie. When it comes to bonuses or shift changes its ONLY about the numbers which causes people to cheat the system and yet they are the ones that are praised. P.S The free fresh fruit only applies if you work the early shift (if you’re lucky) or when the VIPs come into the office... The job itself is very tiring! Mostly because you have no control to help these poor guests who call. The policies and procedures are so disorganized and/or incomplete and so most of the calls we get are complaints we can’t help with. Where are the Team Leads who are supposed to help during these calls? Probably in a meeting. They have about 5 meetings a week where the staff is left without assistance while they’re getting catered lunches. After your shift you just want to go home and cry. The next morning, you contemplate calling in sick. Just looking for a new job but will definitely be quitting Every year theres a trip to Amsterdam. This was really motivation for a lot of people at the bottom of the chain aka us (because managers and people in any other position get to go no matter how long theyve been with the company BUT for us, we had to be in the position for a year) and they just decided that there will be NO trip to Amsterdam this year as they cancelled it forever)

1.0
Jun 26, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

It'a big company, has benefits. Part of the colleagues are nice people

Cons

They don't respect their employees, they hire people and don't want to invest time&money and put the employees to do the trainings. The yearly increase of base salary is a joke. Not to discuss the favoritism in the team

2.0
May 21, 2018

A world of contradictions...

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Pretty relaxed work environment. Great opportunities to advance if you are a fresh graduate with no prior experience. Freedom to navigate the company as you wish.

Cons

Truly poor leadership. The majority of management across all roles are people who have no life experience outside of Booking (usually in a sales capacity), lack educational credentials you'd expect, etc. In some cases, the leadership teams of entire departments are a group of personal friends with no credentials to have comparable level jobs outside of Booking, but their aligned interest to protect each other and their understanding of ways to manipulate Booking's "data" culture covers their tracks. HR pays lip service to things like this (there is literally a line in our compliance handbook that says managers cannot be involved in hiring or management of personal friends), but nobody actually cares enough to step in and enforce (or even investigate) it. If you come in as a fresh graduate with no experience, this can work in your favor--you will work on interesting projects quickly and advance quickly (unfortunately to be one of those very inexperienced people in a high level leadership position). If you are a mid-career transfer, Booking is a dead-end unless you simply want to live in Amsterdam (my case, as they took care of relocation, etc.) and fly under the radar until you find something more interesting or decide to go back home. I can say that a significant proportion of managers/directors are dependent on personal friendships, ability to manipulate data in front of others who are equally incapable of critical analysis, or both. There is nothing more discouraging than being recruited for your experience and running into directors who are less experienced than the people you used to manage but also unwilling to listen because of the positive-reinforcement they have gotten for so long in this unique culture. When business is good (the Google machine still works to drive business), quite frankly it doesn't really matter--the incompetency and inefficiency throughout management is hidden. If the business environment ever changes (i.e. Google tweaks their business model), chaos will ensue.

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Booking.com Response
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Thank you for sharing these thoughts with us. We appreciate hearing feedback from our employees. We want to assure you that we’re focused on strengthening our management performance. That means we’re working on our management capabilities to enhance our project management, which in turn will help our teams operate more effectively. While we appreciate when employees refer their friends and family when we have open positions, we want to assure you that we evaluate all candidates consistently and fairly, regardless of any personal connections. We want you to know that your HR Business Partner is always happy to chat with you. Hearing feedback like yours through our internal channels helps us take action in reviewing our processes and improve the employee experience. Many thanks, The People Team at Booking.com
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