Booking.com reviews

4.1

80% would recommend to a friend

(7,592 total reviews)
avatar

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 7,592 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).

Reviews by job title

8K reviews
1.0
Jul 7, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Fine lunches. Big and nice office

Cons

Very outdated technologies. The principal and senior developers don't use Swift. All is done with 10 years old technologies. The manager and principal intimidate all the time. Very political. I worked on an important system and senior devs just stopped development because they didn't want competition. I found another job and now sleep well. Be careful because you will be working on very old and outdated technologies with updates. Some seniors don't developer at all they control other developers and make political games such as different policies and tons of meetings.

avatar
Booking.com Response
7y
Thanks for taking the time to write this feedback. We're taking steps into new territories to ensure that the technology we work with is diversifying as we are. We're committed to innovation and leveraging technology to ensure our product and services remain the best in the space. In the meantime, feel free to speak to your manager or HR Business Partner with any questions or comments you may have. Also, know that we have been working with local managers on behaviour on the work floor. We know how important our managers are to keeping their teams motivated and inspired. Many thanks, The People Team at Booking.com
2.0
Jun 16, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

As far as call center jobs go, it's not a bad place to be. Solely because you get to work with some of the coolest people from all across the world with different backgrounds. If you're a sociable person, you'll suddenly have hundreds of new friends. This, however, is a slowly deteriorating feature; as many good people have uprooted and left since Brexit, with the new recruits really scraping the bottom of the barrel.

Cons

Here's the full anecdote: throughout your training process, you're led to believe that you matter. It's only after a few months in that you begin to wake up from the hypnotic state and realize that your job is to defend immoral policies of a corrupt industry and the company that fuels this injustice. The very fabric of the infrastructure is set up so that they are prepared to expel your crushed soul and replace them with another naive one. It won't take very long for you to realize that the whole of the company looks down on you, and that non of the backend departments care about the real end-user experience, and anyone whose job isn't being jeopardized by the lack of whatever it is that you're trying to accomplish will care nor contribute towards your accomplishment of that goal. Prepare yourself if you're being hired pre-peak, as you'll be witness the mass layoffs in the autumn seasons just before the end of peak party. If you manage to make it past peak, you'll see that the cheerful glee from the faces of those you were in gradbay with will have been wiped out. These always come in stages without a single exception. Do not expect miraculous promotions if you don't already have the qualifications required for more commercial roles. There are plenty of mainland Europeans with a masters or above, just in the call center to get a foot in the door. This is not one of those companies that'll provide the funds and training in exchange for your dedication and hard work. Don't underestimate the complexity of the role compared to the other call center jobs. Other call centers design their policies to avoid complaints wherever they can - this one is designed to sustain other priorities. Staff retention is an issue for a reason.

avatar
Booking.com Response
7y
Hi, wow that's quite a review! I completely agree that one of the most amazing things about our business is the amazing people you get to work with. I completely disagree with pretty much everything else you have to say. We are doing our very best to improve our customer experience and raise service standards across the industry. There are loads of opportunities for progression, 100s of people are promoted every year, in the last 3 months alone there have been 94 internal promotions across customer service but of course if you don't have the relevant qualifications or experience that probably won't happen but that's no different from anywhere else. We certainly don't want to expel anyone's "crushed soul" and if you genuinely feel that way I would recommend that you seriously consider your career going forward. Thanks again Ryan
2.0
May 9, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great facilities Good location Decent pay, although I understand for some this wasn't the case Most management were good Nice HR and people teams Good communication

Cons

Bad managers are very bad - there were a few higher ups who were extremely unprofessional. There was a spate of bullying which I both saw first hand and was briefly a target of myself. On top of this there were some very worrying instances of what I can only describe as sexual harassment and managers in relationships with their subordinates, mostly in the form of affairs. When this was raised by both myself and others it was claimed that these staff were "top performers". Hit and miss career paths - I felt there were opportunities to develop and progress through the business, however it was down to your manager somewhat whether you'd get the time to pursue this, not ideal in my case. Also there were as above staff in relationships with their managers getting a step-up which lead to disgruntlement.

avatar
Booking.com Response
8y
Hi and thanks for your review, although I am clearly concerned about some of the things you have said. You say that most managers are good but then describe some specific concerns. I can assure you that whether a colleague is a "top performer" or not makes no difference to our approach if issues exist and I am concerned if anyone has said that to you. Perhaps you could get in touch with me to talk through the concerns you have. Kind regards Ryan
Viewing 214 - 216 of 7,592 Reviews

Glassdoor has 9,136 Booking.com reviews submitted anonymously by Booking.com employees. Read employee reviews and ratings on Glassdoor to decide if Booking.com is right for you.