Booking.com reviews

4.1

80% would recommend to a friend

(7,594 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 7,594 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 11, 2018

Don’t be fooled by employee benefits

Anonymous employee
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Pros

-Free tea, coffee -Free drinks once a month -Very competitive salary -Lots of staff discounts -Flexible working hours

Cons

-No clear vision of their future -Management are awful -Too much focus on ‘being fun’ and ‘cool’ to work for, but not enough getting stuff done! -Very little room for progression. They will recruit externally rather than internally. -So many things are wrong with the business and it’s operative processes as a whole, but instead they spend time and money on ‘being different.’ -Company has a bad rep with customers. Too many complaints.

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Booking.com Response
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Hi and thanks for your feedback, although I am clearly disappointed by what you have to say, we really do appreciate all views so we can continue to work on becoming a better place to work. Firstly, thank you for your list of Pros, having been here for more than 3 years you will have seen this develop a lot in that time and it's nice to see someone recognise that our pay and benefits are good, so thank you. With regards to your concerns I'd like to address this more generally. From the recent Your Voice survey we have seen a drop in colleague's clarity about our vision for the future and an increasing feeling of disconnection with the LT. This is clearly disappointing to see but we do recognise this as an issue. Over the last 12 months we have been going through the biggest change in our company history as we integrate with Booking.com (which is also our biggest opportunity in our history btw). As a LT we have been spending more time in Amsterdam and this has meant we are not as connected with the day to day as we have been. The good news is we do have a very clear vision for the future, we just have not done a good enough job of sharing it with you guys. From Your Voice and feedback like yours, we are already taking steps to address this and during Oct / Nov have a whole range of activity planned to address this. You will hear more at the all colleague update next week. With regards to career opportunities there isn't a business in the North West with more! It is true we are recruiting a lot of new people but what is not true is a lack of opportunities for current colleagues. I think I signed off 10 internal promotions last week alone. The truth is we are growing fast and as a result need to develop and promote our amazing colleagues as well as bringing talented new colleagues into the business. That's a great position to be in. I'd love to hear from you in December and see your thoughts then on some of the issues you have raised, please do get in touch, thanks Ryan
2.0
Aug 1, 2018

Not a technology company

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Pros

Good food is served in cafeteria. Inclusive culture with sense of everyone being heard.

Cons

The leadership sometimes seems like headless chicken. Technology and the developers are mostly the background characters. Position of CTO have been vacant for more than a year.

1.0
Jul 24, 2018

Embarassingly unprofessional

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Free lunch, good premium pay, multicultural, some very good benefits

Cons

Poor management, double standards, team leaders have no idea what "leader" means. Toxic atmosphere with a lot of lazy and inefficient support staff pretending to work. A lot of time wasted on useless meetings instead of doing some actual work. TL's come up with phony ways to create an illusion of "support" while the staff can see through it which demotivates them even further.

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