Booking.com reviews

4.1

80% would recommend to a friend

(7,584 total reviews)
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Glenn Fogel

71% approve of CEO

68% positive business outlook

Booking.com has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 7,584 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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1.0
Aug 14, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

You may have the change to change your employement status from Full time to Part time or viceversa and you can choose ( based on business needs ) the shift patterns. there are many other better companies Salary is enough, but not great. they organize nice parties and freaky friday, giving you free entrance and free drinks until 00.00.

Cons

1- the company is changing so much, so the whole idea of a relaxed environment is gone. 2- is becoming the Ryanair in their industry, I know that as I was working for Ryanair too. 3 - the whole concept of Values ecc is basically gone. 4 - the new working agreement has been modified without agreement with Works Council and many part time colleagues had problems to obtain their preference for schedules 5 - the managment is doing nothing to improve but only to ruin the atmosphere in the company, creating more pressure for Customer Service Agents and Teal Leaders. 6 - The company is huge, but the chances to have career opportunities are close to the 0. I had change and all the requirements to be a Team Leader, but the HR department advise me to withdrawl my request to be a Team Leader as I was hopeless and I was ( they said literally ) losing my time. 7 - many problems for vacation requests. Basically, the work load is divided in languages, but either you're from a small country with few workers on the line, or an agent from a main language, your chances to have holidays are low. Summer : Forget about it, you should book in September of the year before. Christmas and NYE you have to choose really in advance and is not granted, and you cannot have both period together. 8 - the company is squeezing the employees as lemons for the peak season. The company is only customer oriented, so whatever you received from an angry customer you should take it. 9 - kpi's becoming harder and harder to reach - with consequent pressure on employees and Team Leader 10 - Food is lamentable, considering that, despite for what management said, we actually pay for it. I also found a fly in my dish once. 11 - the company is creating external partner providers which create a drop in the quality of responses for both Booking.com and the customers. 12 - benefits are low, only the Genius status, which is a 10 % discount on booking through Booking.com, but is not even accepted by all Hotels and properties. 13 - they're firing people and not renewing fixed contracts basically giving 0 security. 14 - they're creating new rules and procedures which are causing delays and less quality. 15 - they ask for feedback but when you provide a feedback nobody cares.

1.0
Feb 6, 2018

team lead

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Is a competitive environment, they deliver often training, development possibility(only related to skills), decent salary, BAM experience is something worth to see, discount on booking hotels with the platform, monthly parties.

Cons

Is a competitive environment, no much feedback consideration, managers are right or pretend to be even if they make mistakes, fake open door policy, as TL you will have to do HR task, as TL u are between management and agents and you will most likely "take it" from both sides,the management will only support the agent and blame the TL for having caused the issue/discussion/whatever it is (expectation is that you successfully prevent that).Every self-reflection will be used against you, the senior management is often not in the office leaving the TL with full responsibilities and limited powers. The work council is highly unprofessional and has people with personal interests in the company choices. It is always stressfull and loud. They will only give unlimited contract after 2 years of executing without discussions of any kind. If an agent has a problem he/she can reach HR that will reach your manager andthis will be back for you. If you have a problem with your manager you will reach HR and you will lose your job, no matter what. No Career Opportunities at all. You can still somehow influence your schedule, however this option will soon expire as the HQ inAmster prefer to arrange ppl schedules

1.0
Jul 4, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Nice colleagues Some benefits from the company like free drinks, fruit, parties

Cons

No work-life balance due to different shifts, incl. weekends Very stressful job Low basic salary No chances for promotion unless you are very very close to the management (despite your previous experience or education ) No transparency from the management on many different things

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