Nice colleagues and office, low pay and no career possibilities
Pros
Really a lot of nice people, all nationalities are available and you will get some real close friends! Also the office is nicely located in the center of Amsterdam! Really good customer service!
Cons
Base salary is low, some bonuses are offered but these are not work related, more about the brownie points you earned at your manager. New hires are dragged in with a low salary with the 30% tax benefit of the Netherlands (almost no Dutch are working there cause the salary is too low for them). There is no career path, everyone is hired as a senior but you will be officially 3 years later so it feels like a career. Booking.com believes in their "data-driven" approach (huge amount of small a/b tests), but there are so many factors that are involved that it is hard to get something thru. basically people with brilliant ideas should start working for a startup, good ideas always fail here in data! As mentioned for Amazon: also at booking i saw nice people cry about their job! And yes booking.com is a big player, and yes other companies will hire you cause it is on your CV, but if you like to work you do (code/design)... that is not at booking
