Booking.com reviews

For anyone other than those mentioned above, including those with any measurable work history or those who enjoy building great products consumers love, you will almost certainly find Booking.com to be a nightmare. The company is very political, title-driven, obstinate in its way of operating, and arrogant because of its past success. From a product perspective, Booking.com leadership seems unable to think about doing anything that might take longer than one week to build. Apart from doing A/B tests, the company is also not very data-driven. As a result, people who rise through the ranks are often those most adept at playing politics, who spend a lot of time talking over people’s heads and trying to sound more intelligent and actionable than they actually are. Booking.com doesn’t hire particularly strong, well-rounded people, so many people, when encountered with the show pony, foolishly trust that the show pony knows what he or she is talking about. In the end, nothing of value for the Booking.com consumer gets done, causing great frustration for results-driven employees who genuinely want to build great products consumers will love. Financially, Booking.com employees are highly undervalued. The company pays extremely poorly compared to anywhere considered a major tech hub, but extremely well compared to Eastern Europe, where no significant tech presence exists. As a result, the company relies greatly on the intra-European income disparity (as well as the 30% ruling) in order to be able to say it pays a competitive wage. The reality is that any of the top talent at Booking.com could easily go to the US West Coast and earn at least 3x the salary. The comp structure is also incredibly one-sided (three-year cliff vesting on stocks is the legal maximum, and Booking.com takes full advantage of that).

Bear with me for the long list with Real Examples as well. 1. They live on experiments for everything which is the reason for not much feature development and You will just end up changing if conditions or so just small things. 2. They have an obsession with Perl which is the dinosaur Language. If you think well how bad can it be. Just google it man!!!! 3. This Company used to be great and had developed some awesome systems but that is not the case anymore. Any company mind you, any company can easily take it down with aggressive marketing and tech development. 4. You come in and run and talk around like stupids to people and again interviewing and begging them to take into their teams. 5. They will ramble about open culture and in fact people prefer their own team members to be of their own country people or races. So much for open culture. 6. About helpful culture and all, Noooo you keep pinging people here and no one replies. Never ever in my past 5 companies I saw this much hostile environment. 7. Do yourself a favour and don't ruin your life by coming here... In the end they don't even pay that well to be able to bear all this nuisance atleast. So, run for your life -------------------------------------------------------------- Example: Apparently these guys have an onboarding program which they boast about but actually is a complete waste of time, skills and resources. The so called OnBoarding Leads will tell you that they will find you the team and some even dislike the fact of you going and talking to people for teams. But apparently after weeks, they will be like what!!! You didn't find the team. Should I worry???? So, you have to able to read people minds before landing up here. Don't forget to take a course in Psychology and talking gibberish in case you do come.