Booking.com Software Developer reviews

- Since 2022 on-call is mandatory and not revokable if agreed - Scrum is used to take autonomy out of the hands of engineers. The company is run by product people - Work environment is competitive, toxic and stressful. Engineers work against each other in order to look good and be promoted, stealing work from team members, masking this as a "helpful attitude" - It's a male dominated company. Engineering is 95% guys - Tech is not a priority: main software is made of early 2000's PHP and JSPs - Processes and bureaucracy make it difficult to see the end of tasks - It's much more important to publicise your work than to actually do work - Projects get spawned and cancelled every quarter - Career progress is driven by how much your work is seen across the company - Bonus is driven by metrics that everyone tries to maximise, causing lack of coherence across teams