Booking.com Software Developer reviews

3.7

74% would recommend to a friend

(260 total reviews)
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Glenn Fogel

45% approve of CEO

50% positive business outlook

Software Developer employees have rated Booking.com with 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 260 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Software Developer professionals have a good working experience there. Booking.com is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Software Developer professionals compared to other employers within the Informationstechnologie industry (3.9 stars).

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260 reviews
1.0
Dec 19, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

- Realocating to Netherlands - Business knowledge

Cons

- Pressure to write code that converts - Distance between programmers and the management that evaluates your performance is really big, which causes severe communication problems - Inconsistency in performance evaluations, where team leaders not always respect what is asked of your role and gives arbitrary decisions - HR encourages to talk with them to review performance evaluations but they won't listen to you and will repeat whatever they heard from team leaders - Developers that are not capable of being team leaders are being promoted as such when they just don't know how to deal with people and treat you like a coding robots - Politics games with clear, unprepared favorites - You need to show off your job or you will never be recognized - Micromanagement - The tech stack is at least 10 years old, I didn't learn nothing new in my area - Perl

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Booking.com Response
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Thanks for taking the time to give us your feedback. We appreciate you letting us know about your frustrations with management, performance evaluation and technology, especially as a former member of our development team. This year, we’ve made performance management our main focus. We’re working towards making changes that will see managers better trained and processes adapted to ensure everyone is evaluated fairly. In regards to your concerns about technology, it's true that PERL has played an important role in our technology for a long time, but that is changing. We're taking steps into exciting new territories and the tech we work with is diversifying as we do. We're committed to innovation and leveraging technology to ensure our product and services remain the best in the space. Many thanks The People Team at Booking.com
5.0
Nov 21, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Diverse and friendly environment, anyone is willing to help you. Bunch of benefits like discount on hotels and others. You can implement your ideas and have a huge impact worldwide. Wonderful work/life balance.

Cons

Low salaries in compare to other big tech companies.

5.0
Oct 25, 2017

Great place to work

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Diverse environment - Passionate colleagues - Lot of learning opportunities - Good work / life balance

Cons

- You do not know which team you will be part of when joining the company

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