Booking.com reviews

4.1

80% would recommend to a friend

(7,597 total reviews)
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Glenn Fogel

70% approve of CEO

67% positive business outlook

Booking.com has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 7,597 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Booking.com 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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8K reviews
1.0
Jul 8, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Flexible working hours, free food

Cons

Working there reminded me of the song "chain on fools" daily :-) Unprofessional is saying the least... not even sure they grasp what this word means. Clueless management with TL's who do not even have basic human skills let alone work ones. Biased treatment of employees, rules will be applied to some but not to all. If you are not liked you will bullied and harassed out of your job in mafia style way. Fake attitude throught the whole place. People don't even acknowledge you with basic courtesies like an hello when they see you, sorry if they bump into you or thank you if hold the door for them and then gush out how amazing and friendly they all are on the on the workplace social media platform so as to get brownie points with TLs which will gain them visibility enche leading to promotions. Company procedures lack common sense or any other purpouse than making the work long winded. Quality team evaluation are a complete sham, based more on personal perception than on looking at the real quality of the work done. At least in London the quality team is made up by a bunch of brainless individuals which were chosen for the position precisely for that. You ask questions and the answers given are unrelated and do not make sense... just talking for the sake of it. The system on wich the platform is based is complete rubbish. Website crasshes constantly, information is misleading or plain wrong, bugs are a daily accurance... basically just a rubbish product which employees are expected to consider (and the company as well) as the best thing the planet ever had. At time the whole atmosphere in meetings and events is so creepy and self celebrating it reminded me of cults. Manegement was investigated for sexual harassment and bullying but in the end all stayed the same. I was personally discriminated and when i raised this up nothing was done. Basically just a workplace you should avoid if you want to work in a friendly and professional environment

1.0
Mar 17, 2019

Product Owner

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

There is no pros in this company when it comes to Product Management. If it is your first job in product, and you really don’t have any other options - go for it. Otherwise, take any other option on the market and never look back. Certain people write that Booking is Google for Europe. What?!?

Cons

- they hire and fire Product Managers quicker than certain people change their socks. There are number of cases where they fire product managers without any reason behind and don’t care about the legal consequences. - I’ve been in HR industry for 10+ years but never saw any other company making promises bluntly and not delivering them. There has been cases when new hires (product owners) relocate from distant seas for Booking to discover that everything that Booking promissed is one big lie and the only option they have is to sit quiet or return back to their homeland. - The company is on a moment many people in the product/tech organisation are demotivated by the short term focus, and no innovation behind. - The experimentation culture Booking is famous for doesn’t even follow basic standards, there no training behind and product leaders to drive it forward. - Leadership is non existent, puppets everywhere, people are afraid to question and if they do - they get fired. Forget about promotion or higher salary. - Overall, toxic place to be in. Would not even recommend it to my dearest enemy.

1.0
Oct 30, 2018

Developer

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Some good colleagues. Office location and parties. Work life balance taken well and they communicate a lot with people

Cons

The code is very messy. As bad as you can imagine. If you try to change some people can embarrass you. The Perl is the main language. No structure at all. You can push the code whenever you want. Retaliation from the management side. The directors are awful. They do only politics and care about their positions. Be careful of your health wellbeing. The company pushes so much so people get on burnout leaves.

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