Amadeus reviews

4.0

79% would recommend to a friend

(4,384 total reviews)
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Luis Maroto

79% approve of CEO

67% positive business outlook

Amadeus has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 4,384 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Amadeus 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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2.0
Jun 10, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

+ Not very demanding, steady job. + Very relaxed atmosphere (and I mean _very_), a typical day of a typical Amadeus developer: 9:30 - arrival to work 10:00 - 10:15 - coffee break 12:00 - 13:30 - lunch 13:30 - 14:00 - coffee break 16:00 - 16:15 - coffee break 18:00 - go home + Great work/life balance. + Really sunny area. + Mostly friendly people.

Cons

- Not a very demanding job - it's not a place for achievers and dynamic people. - Just like at any other mediocre big company - politics, many small-minded people. - Most are not exactly experts on coding or management. - Severe lack of management and people skills on all levels - confrontation avoidance, lack of communication, occasional yelling. - People trash talk each other behind their backs and form cliques, management plays along. - Very very slow career progression or none at all. - For many people Amadeus is the only employer that they ever had. - Core technology is quite oldish and in-house, and over-all not very exciting. - Typical work distribution: 45% - bug investigation 45% - meetings about specifications and work coordination with other teams 10% - actual coding - Serious problems with transportation in general; rush hours in Sophia are the really bad. - All around it's nothing but villages and small towns (!!!). - Salaries for developers are quite low. - Everything takes ages. - Many people, often straight from universities, have far more confidence than knowledge - it's like working in Idiocracy. - Distrust, backstabbing, slander and fakeness are more common than at any company that I worked ever before.

2.0
Jun 10, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

A good place to start as a graduate since you learn a lot about industry and working in a critical application. Also, as a graduate you get raise every 6 months so after two years you will earn more than £40k. The place is really easy going and as long as you do the required work, no one cares how much time you spend on a break etc. Bonus around 8%-10% 28 days of holiday per year

Cons

Location is really bad. It's located near Heathrow Airport so nothing around besides a pub, really noisy outside the building and it will take a lot of time commuting to get there even from west London. There is not much room for development. You may be lucky and work in a new project but most probably you will be 90% maintenance - 10% development. After two years when you finish graduate scheme and are promoted as Software Engineer, you will take yearly raise in the region of 3.5%. No training is provided. They expect you to figure out everything yourself. Code is really messy, we are talking about methods having thousands of lines of code.

1.0
Jun 1, 2014

A highly unethical organisation as a whole

Anonymous employee
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Pros

None! No benefits derived out of working with this organisation.

Cons

I joined the company as a fresher and was made to sign a 2 yr bond. In my second year appraisal I was given a low rating and the management as well as the HR failed to justify it. I resigned and bond amount was recovered from my salary. The appraisal matter wasn't closed till the day I exit the company. So in short, do not sign any bond with this company. They even have one for overseas travel. Because they will not justify their actions during that period and its a win win situation for them. The HR are not even qualified enough to write grammatically correct documents for an employee. They can't write 2 simple sentences of correct English! If someone has the time, one should sue this firm!

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