Booking.com reviews

4.0

79% would recommend to a friend

(7,603 total reviews)
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Glenn Fogel

69% approve of CEO

67% positive business outlook

Booking.com has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 7,603 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good 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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1.0
Oct 14, 2015
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Pros

At one time Booking.com Orlando was a great place to work it was a family a customer service center not a typical U.S. Call center. The guest was the priortity and internal advancement was open to all employees.

Cons

Unfortunately, Booking.com Orlando has become that dreaded U.S. Call center. Regardless of how you treat the guest with the best service possible the metrics are all that matter. The CSAT (customer survey) is not applicable just to the CSE but the CSE is held accountable for the survey even if it has nothing to do with their proformance and if the survey is low then you are written up on a 90 day write up for a 30 day metrics report. Completely unfair to the CSE - upper management does not seem to care or take this into consideration. I have worked for Bookng.com for 2yrs. I was in love with my job it was a family but now I hate getting out of bed and going to work. Think about it when 80 employees are fired in one month for no good reason just because upper management feels they are not being productive although they are and have been the original staff that has helped with bring Booking.com to the U.S. status it currently is in. There is no consideration for the employee! This is when you know that you need to leave and not refer anyone to work at Booking.com because you do not want for this unhappiness to happen to anyone else.

2.0
Oct 14, 2015
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Pros

In honesty, the Booking IT department has a couple of things in its favor. The job is not demanding, most team leaders are reasonable (and you can put in for a transfer) and the relocation perks to Amsterdam are noteworthy. In other words: Booking.com is an excellent way to immigrate to Europe, and get a foothold in the job market here. For that, it gets the one star.

Cons

The lack of vision in general is easily attributable to the company being unchallenged on its existence for over a decade. In the absence of a vision, everybody is just maintaining the status quo, not coming up with new ideas and not doing anything to improve upon things. Because why would they? This applies to everything. Management is becoming less and less connected to what happens on the floor, and technical reasoning is virtually absent. While the people are generally reasonably skilled, the 80% expat staff composition means that nobody has a safety net to complain... and even if you do say no, some new guy will step up and (naively) say yes. Voilá, structurally ensured bad decision-making. The CIO is keen on repeating (and you can even see that dogmatism leak into the positive IT reviews here?) that Booking is "not a technology company." Considering that this is from the Chief Information Officer, it's not entirely unfair to conclude that it fails even at being even an Information Technology company -- it only has the offices, perks and explosive growth of one. Underneath the hood, it's looking a bit like a stock market adventure, or a perl hacker's playground, depending on job title. Some people are really caught up in this, and can't discern factoid from fact anymore. Tragicomically, the one thing Booking would benefit most from would be exactly that: being a technology company. Booking is troubled with problems on a daily basis that you wouldn't believe could exist in a space between 750 capable programmers, and still, it refuses to modernize what is, essentially, an engorged LAMP stack tracing back to its company beginnings. For anyone considering applying there, and for that matter for the cleverer heads who haven't jumped ship yet, I have to pose the question of whether you think that Booking is good for your career as an IT professional. Nobody else wants perl. Nobody else wants a shell cowboy. How long will the illusion last?

4.0
Oct 14, 2015

Customer Service Executive

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Fixed hours, possibility of overtime, free lunch, coffee, fruits and vegetables daily, rich benefit program

Cons

no privacy in the office, but that is the con of all call centers

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