Booking.com reviews

it is dead end. employees are pretty demotivated. about half people stay for promise of promotion. but the rules keeps change so nobody knows how to do it. everybody hates silly rules but leadership still do it. it is like they are clueless they make decisions which demotivates employees, but then they never held accountable or any consequence when ppl leave or complain. only people who say yes and flatter them get any rewards. so, employees think they can get away with anything. in some parts of the company, they can. and if you tell hr, then you just get retaliation i heard. i am going to find a new job soon hopefully. it can be a depressive place. i heard it used to be good here few years ago, but i miss the good times.

- This was the company I've been disappointed the fastest in my career, realised it was not a good company after 3 months being in there. - The company embaraces and promotes people that firefights issues in production, the type of people that can find the bug on the spaghetti code put into production and fix it fast. On the other hand, if you are a person that likes to be preventive, tries to push for better coding practices, promotes the development of tests in order to AVOID AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE future issues in production, you will get nothing. I had a manager that told me that "writing tests was slowing us down", and I must stop writing them. - There is a big monolith written in Perl. Having a monolith is not bad per se, coding in Perl is not bad per se. Having a monolith in perl without proper ownership of teams through the code, with people pushing changes without even testing them, with people making deploys and not caring about anything during the process, is horrible and painful. If I had known this before joining, I would have not joined at all. - All the people I referred had a horrible experience on the interview process, which tells me that 1) I was lucky in the recruitment process, and 2) there are a lot of unprofessional people working in HR. - I did not experience it myself, but there are a lot of burnout cases through the company (I personally know 2 cases). Most of them are a consequence of bad managers. There are a lot of good managers but most of them will not shine, as they are not showponies. - There are a lot of retaliation cases, also did not happen to me but it did to a close friend. If you decide to join, do get well with your manager. - If you want to grow in there, you need to have 3 things: - excellent communication skills - excellent commercial awareness. - speed coding and pushing changes fast. Quality of your code is not important at all (unless you get a good manager). - Being a team lead sucks, as you will have way more responsibilities than the developers, but the difference on the payslip is between 0 and 5%. - During the interview process they will tell you that they will support your partner on finding a job. That is a huge lie. The only thing they do is give him/her a couple of CV trainings.