Developers treated as sales promoters - Software Developer Booking.com Employee Review

1.0
Dec 19, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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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
7y
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

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Hi, thank you for the wonderful feedback! We're so glad to hear that Booking.com has been a great fit for someone with a startup mindset. Our culture of experimentation and innovation is something we're really proud of, and it's great to know it resonates. We hope you continue to thrive here! The Booking.com team
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